I'm a development economist interested in the role of information on technology adoption. In particular, I am interested in how our social and economic networks impact our adoption decisions.
This agenda currently consists of two components. First, I conduct empirical research to understand what mechanisms drive social networks to be influential sources of information and whether these mechanisms can be adapted in other settings. Second, I develop applied econometrics tools to estimate network structure in contexts where network data is difficult and costly to obtain. More broadly, I am interested in agricultural economics, the economics of networks, and the economics of information.
Job Market Paper: Sample Size Isn't Everything: How Uncertainty About Heterogeneity Impacts Technology Adoption
Recovering Network Structure from Aggregated Relational Data using Penalized Regression with Eric Auerbach and Michael Leung
BA in Mathematics (Honors) and Economics