Job Market Candidates

Information about the Environmental Markets Lab 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates. 

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Sandy Sum

PhD Student

Job Market Paper: Distributional Implications of Environmental Markets: Insights from California Groundwater

 

Sandy's research investigates how environmental change and policies shape and are shaped by patterns of social and economic inequalities. Her recent projects have focused on quantifying the distributional outcomes of water scarcity and regulation in California.

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Yifan (Flora) He

PhD Student

Job Market Paper: Deforestation as Patronage: Political Alignment and Deforestation Law Enforcement in Bolivia

 

Flora is an environmental politics scholar focusing on land and natural resource governance in the Global South. She combine rigorous causal inference methods, rich geospatial and remote sensing data, and in-depth qualitative interviews to advance knowledge in three areas: the distributive politics of environmental policy implementation; the social consequences of environmental degradation; and inclusive global conservation policy.

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Brian Lee

PhD Student

 

Brian's research involves utilizing machine learning and remote sensing data fusion to study interactions between species and the landscapes they occupy, particularly at the intersection of human and nature-dominated systems

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Guglielmo ZappalĂ 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Job Market Paper: Propagation of extreme heat in agriculture across sectors and space

 

Guglielmo's research focuses on the socio-economic impact of climate change and the human ability to adapt to these impacts, as well as how individuals perceive and form their attitudes towards climate and the role of beliefs in adaptive behavior.