Research

Working Papers

Farmer Willingness to Participate in Voluntary Conservation Programs: Evidence from Eastern North Carolina

with Greg Howard

Uses discrete choice analysis to identify the economic and behavioral factors that drive farmer participation in voluntary conservation programs in Eastern North Carolina.

Conflict Among Slope Ski Tourers in the Alps: Applications for Machine Learning

with Klaus Moeltner and Martin Schnitzer

Applies machine learning methods to study conflict between ski tourers on shared Alpine slopes, with implications for recreation management and policy.

Environmental Stress and Labor-Market Constraints on International Migration

Examines how environmental stress interacts with labor-market conditions at origin to shape international migration flows, using bilateral panel data across 138 countries.

Warnings from the Web: Using Online Media Data to Anticipate Crop Conditions

with Mario Ortez, Michael Smith, and Nicole Widmar

Uses natural language processing of online media to construct early-warning indicators of adverse crop conditions.

A Replicable Framework for Ex-Ante Property Value Impact Assessment of Proposed Utility-Scale Solar Facilities

with Zhenshan Chen

Develops a replicable framework for projecting property value impacts of proposed utility-scale solar facilities before construction, combining matched comparable sites, difference-in-differences estimation, and welfare translation.

Recovering Direct Price Effects of Environmental Amenities in Housing Markets: Regression and Causal Machine Learning Model Assessment with Empirical Monte Carlo Simulation

with Zhenshan Chen and Klaus Moeltner

Uses an empirical Monte Carlo simulation on over one million upstate New York property transactions to evaluate regression and causal machine learning methods for recovering unconfounded price effects of environmental amenities in hedonic models.

Grid Tariffs and Household Electricity Use

with Benjamin Kirchler, Andrea Kollmann, and Johannes Reichl

Analyzes how a novel peak-based grid tariff affects household electricity consumption, using an experiment with Austrian households.

Publications

Integrating human decision-making into a hydrological model to accurately estimate the impacts of agricultural policies

with M.R. Tapas, Greg Howard, R. Etheridge, and A. Peralta. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 412 (2025).

Framework for Stakeholder-Driven Socio-Hydrological Modeling: Conceptual Foundations for Policy Development and Evaluation to Improve Ecosystem Health

with M.R. Tapas, R. Etheridge, and Greg Howard. In: Pandey, M., Umamahesh, N., Das, J., Pu, J.H. (eds) Hydrology and Hydrologic Modelling. HYDRO 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 410. Springer (2025).