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I am a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and a part-time assistant professor in Economics at Occidental College. I received my PhD in applied economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in environment, energy, development, and gender. My current project at UCLA uses 11 millions households' utility bills and spatial data to evaluate the effectiveness of energy efficiency programs in Southern California, identify mechanisms that drive the program outcomes, and understand the distributional impacts in disadvantaged communities. My other work in development economics studies peer effects on people's consumption behaviors in Thailand, farmers' adaptation to climate change in India, and risk/social preference measurement in Paraguay. In addition, I am launching a field experiment to evaluate gender bias in the music profession and another project to examine female political representation in Taiwan. Aside from my love of coding, I enjoy collecting primary data to improve my understanding of human behaviors. I have conducted fieldwork in India, Thailand, and Cambodia. My most recent work on climate change adaptation among Indian farmers is published at Economics Letters. Another recent work on stability of preferences is published at the Journal of Development Economics and was the No. 1 most cited paper published in JDE since 2015 (well...The system arbitrarily changed the starting year to 2014 in 2019. Not sure why. Glad that I have printsceened the evidence to show my mom!). I also wrote an extensive review on Social Networks in Developing Countries in the Annual Review of Resource Economics. Here is my google scholar profile |
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