I am an assistant professor in the Department of Resource Economics and the co-director of the Cleve E. Willis Experimental Economics Laboratory at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

I am a behavioral and experimental economist whose research focuses on decision making under risk and uncertainty and its applications in health economics. My work advances the robust estimation of individual risk preferences using Bayesian econometric methods, applies these estimates to the evaluation of individual welfare, and informs our understanding of consequential decisions in health—including vaccination, surgical discharge, and treatment choice. Two unifying themes run through my research. First, individual heterogeneity in risk preferences, time preferences, and beliefs is not a nuisance to be averaged away but the central object of interest for both descriptive and normative economics. Second, methodological rigor in measuring these individual characteristics is the prerequisite both for credible welfare analysis and for understanding the decisions those characteristics drive. For more information on my papers and projects, current projects and future research plans, please visit the "Research" page.

I have independently taught four college level, economics classes - "The Global Economy" and "The Introduction to Game Theory" at Georgia State University, and "Decision Analysis" and "Experimental Economics" at University of Massachusetts Amherst.  I also taught "Applied Microeconomic Theory II," the second course in the Microeconomics sequence for graduate students.  The experience with the students has been very rewarding; both my teaching skills and philosophies evolve with the valuable feedback from my students. For my teaching philosophy and more information on these courses, please visit the "Teaching" page.