About

I am a senior scientia fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of New South Wales and also the Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). Recipient of the prestigious Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research in 2021 by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. See the public lecture I gave for the award on the economic implications of climate change here and a PBS feature on subsequent research here.

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My main research interests are causal inference, climate change / environmental economics, panel data econometrics, and neural networks. My research has involved developing and applying innovative methods in causal inference and panel data to a diverse range of topics including the macroeconomic and agricultural effects of climate change, the impact of child labour on child development, estimating labour supply elasticities, and panic buying during the COVID pandemic. My future research agenda includes further innovations in instrumental variables research, understanding the economic impacts of climate change, and exploring the synergies that exist between machine learning and econometric approaches to prediction and causal inference.

Alongside academic research, I have worked as an economic consultant on a full time and casual basis for prominent firms in Australia including Ernst & Young and Deloitte Access Economics.