Fields of Study
- Agricultural and Resource Policy
- International Economics and Trade Policy
- Development
B.A. International Studies and Biology, University of Chicago, 2003
M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley, 2011
"High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade."
Working paper to be posted here in Fall 2014.In Search of Humanity: Blogs of an International Aid Worker. VBW Publishing, College Station, 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Humanity-Obie-Porteous/dp/1602643512/ref..."Where Cotton is No Longer King." FORTUNE, New York, 21 March 2005.
"Land Reform in Tajikistan." Field Exchange, Oxford, March 2005.
http://fex.ennonline.net/24/landreform.aspx
"Washed Away: A Food Security Assessment of Flood-Affected Populations in Kamber-Shahdadkot and Dadu Districts, Sindh Province, - "Empirical Effects of Short-Term Export Bans: The Case of African Maize." Draft working paper, September 2012.
- "Project Evaluation: Livelihoods and Economic Recovery in Northern Uganda." Action Against Hunger (ACF), Kampala, July 2010.
- "Land Reform in Tajikistan: From the Capital to the Cotton Fields." Action Against Hunger (ACF), Dushanbe, October 2003.
Graduate Research Fellowship--National Science Foundation--2010-04-01
Sidney Hoos Award for Best Second-Year Econometrics Paper--Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics--2012-05-01
