I am an environmental economist at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). I am affiliated with CEEP, the Climate School, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). From 2023 to 2024, I was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). I study how forecasts and other types of information affect actions in settings including adaptation to climate change, risk-taking in research, and time use. These days, I am especially fascinated by how people perceive and use weather forecasts—a decades-long information intervention going on every hour of the day, all around the world.

News and updates

2025-03-13

New working paper! Age and occupation are both risk factors for heat-related mortality, and the two combine to especially affect young, agricultural workers.

2024-11-13

I have been promoted to Associate Professor (without tenure) at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

2024-11-10

New working paper: Competition Constrains Adaptation to Climate Shocks. Part of a new series of papers I am working on focused on the costs and constraints people face when adapting to climate shocks. This paper finds that greater market competition reduces the amount of adaptation in the consumer finance sector in Ghana.

2024-10-16

New report on the Frontiers of Benefit-Cost Analysis! Find it here. I am proud to have helped draft this report while I was at OIRA, and it is great to see it published! The first report in the series can be found here.

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