About me

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I am an applied microeconomist by training with an emphasis in environmental economics, urban economics, and real estate. The overarching goal of my research is understanding how individual and household choices affect economic outcomes along two distinct veins. The first explores the decision-making of homeowners and their choice to make housing investments in response to neighborhood spillovers or modify their household resource utilization. The second explores individual responses to information shocks related to environmental hazards or changes in public goods. In this area, my research incorporates novel components of housing market dynamics into traditional hedonic analysis which, if ignored, will lead to a consistent underestimation of the true impact of pollution or changes to amenities. I am also interested in supply-side housing market response to environmental hazards, an oft-ignored topic despite its economic importance.

I earned my Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 2016. Before beginning my Ph.D., I attended American University in Washington, DC, where I received an M.A. in Economics and worked as a research analyst in the private sector for market research companies. I also received my bachelor's degree in economics from The Ohio State University. 

If you have any questions about my research, please feel free to contact me!