Welcome to my webpage,

I am an Assistant Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Bloomington.  

I am an environmental and natural resource economist who studies how property rights and institutions shape the use of land and water — and how these choices affect people’s well-being. My work combines causal inference methods with novel satellite data, and economic models to inform policies that balance growth, equity, and sustainability.

• Land use and rights: How land tenure, titling, and governance shape deforestation, reforestation, and rural livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon.

• Water quality and quantity: Impacts of water rights and pollution policies on irrigation, groundwater, and sustainability in the USA and India.

• Environment and Health: Effects of snowfall, urban heat islands, and air pollution on farming, recreation, and health outcomes in the USA and Brazil.

Before joining Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I earned my Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics from Virginia Tech, with prior training in Development Economics (Brazil) and Mechanical Engineering (India).