I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia, and the Founder and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. I'm also a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance and a research affiliate of IZA, the CESifo Network, and the International Growth Centre.

My research is in environmental economics. I combine data with insights from economic theory and environmental science to understand how economic activity and the environment influence one another.

Research Questions:

• How we can manage natural assets and liabilities in a way that maximizes global economic potential?

• How does environmental quality influence economic activity?

  • • How does the underlying economic and policy environment translate changes in environmental quality into economic damages?

    • How does environmental quality affect poverty, economic opportunity, and inequality?

• What are the environmental and economic consequences of regulations that seek to control economic activity?

Research Interests:

Environmental Economics, Growth & Development

Public Finance, Labor Economics, Health Economics, International Trade and Economic Geography.