Research

Publications:

• "Shedding Light on Development: Leveraging the new Nightlights data to measure Economic Progress?"  (with Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram and Jonathan Wilson) [PLOS One]

Working Papers:

• " Cutting Down Forests, Building Up Disease?”: Causal Evidence on Deforestation's Impact on Malaria" - (with Susana Ferreira) 

• "Economic Importance of Hunting for Rural Households Amidst Shocks: Evidence from 23 countries" (with Susana Ferreira and Martin R. Nielsen)

• "From Crisis to Recovery: Assessing the Impact of Sequential Shocks on Household Welfare in Uganda" - (with Susana Ferreira) 

Presentations:

2025:

• Economic Importance of Hunting for Rural Households Amidst Shocks: Evidence from 23 countries." -  at:  Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) @ OSWEET,  14 March 2025. 

• "Cutting Down Forests, Building Up Disease?”: Causal Evidence on Deforestation's Impact on Malaria" - at: Annual Southeast Exchange of Development Studies (SEEDS) Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 25-26, 2025.

2024:

• "Economic Importance of Hunting for Rural Households Amidst Shocks: Evidence from 23 countries." -  at:

  1. Southern Agricultural Economic Association (SAEA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, February 5-6, 2024.

  2. Annual Southeast Exchange of Development Studies (SEEDS) Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 25-26, 2024.

  3. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) session at Southern Economic Association (SEA), Washington, DC, November, 2024.

• "From Crisis to Recovery: Assessing the Impact of Sequential Shocks on Household Welfare in Uganda." - at:

  1. Southern Economic Association (SEA), Washington, DC, November, 2024.

2023:

• "Assessing the Accuracy of Proxies of Economic Activity." - at:

  1. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 22-25, 2023.

• "Economic Importance of Hunting for Rural Households Amidst Shocks: Evidence from 23 countries." - Poster presented at:

  1. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 22-25, 2023.