Hi! I am a PhD Candidate at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I am a member of the Development Lab at the Duke Department of Economics and Duke's Energy Access Project Team. 

I work at the intersection of development, gender, energy, and behavioral economics. My dissertation research examines women's empowerment in Myanmar and Peru through the lenses of agency, aspirations, and the reduction of intimate partner violence using RCTs and lab-in-the-field experiments. 

My other ongoing work uses RCTs, quasi-experimental methods, and survey experiments to study the adoption and impact of climate resilience technologies and willingness to pay for resilience in Kenya; the potential of a customer engagement and simulation platform to improve mini-grid financial sustainability in East Africa; and the scope to leverage fodder cultivation for grassland conservation in Mongolia.  

At Duke, I have had the opportunity to work closely with Subhrendu Pattanayak, Erica Field, and Marc Jeuland, among others.

Prior to Duke, I obtained an M.Sc. in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and a B.A in economics from University College Utrecht, and conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone.