I received my PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2025 and am currently completing a two-year postdoctoral position in Agricultural Economics at Texas A & M University AgriLife Research, where I work with Dr. Marco Palma and faculty affiliated with the Plants, Nature and Health Initiative.

My research uses incentivized laboratory and field experiments to study how people acquire and use information under uncertainty. In my job market paper, “Belief Heterogeneity and Information Acquisition When Others Make the Decision,” I test whether the value of information depends on who ultimately acts on it. Using a laboratory experiment with 198 participants, I show that when decision-makers hold heterogeneous prior beliefs, they anticipate that others will interpret signals differently, which reduces their willingness to pay for information when someone else controls the final decision, even though standard Bayesian theory predicts this separation should be irrelevant.

At Texas A&M, I have extended my experimental toolkit to include galvanic skin response (GSR) and eye tracking, tools I currently apply in an ongoing collaboration studying the effects of nature exposure on decision-making. I am also completing two additional papers: one from a natural field experiment on the determinants of healthy food choices, and another analyzing the effects of cognitive load and incentive schemes on performance in a real-effort task. My broader research agenda combines behavioral and experimental economics with applications in agricultural and health economics, using physiological measures alongside incentivized decision tasks to understand belief formation and choice under uncertainty.

Where am I going next?

I will continue to publish ongoing projects and initiate new ones. I am in the job market in 2026.