I have been fortunate to have worked on a lot of projects, some alone and some with other people. I have also been fortunate to have worked on a lot of projects that didn't align with my research interests and a few that did. Regardless of experience or publication status, each built skills and provided stories. I'll provide some details for each of them below with photos from along the way.
Fields: Agricultural development, experimental economics, and food economics
Working Papers:
Valuing Formalization Amenities: Compensating Differentials in Ghana
Overviewed in the "Job Market Paper" tab
Resilient People or Resilient Places?
A working paper focused on community-level integration using data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey. Also my third-year paper.
Experiential Food Insecurity and Income
With Prof. John Hoddinott; Explores the relationship between income and experiential food insecurity across 140+ countries using standardized metrics for both income and food insecurity measurement. Also my M.S. thesis/second-year paper at Cornell-Dyson.
Works in Progress:
Financial Regulation & Economic Disruptions
A paper under development with Jingyao Wei
In addition to my dissertation work, I have ongoing work with a randomized control trial in Tamale, Ghana with Heather Schofield (Cornell), Vincent Somville (NHH), Leandro Carvalho (USC), and Jingyao Wei (NHH) focused on how the experience of income uncertainty affects household consumption and mental health outcomes.
We are currentlying completing biological testing of stress indicators and will soon have a working paper available online.