Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
PhD., Economics, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2010
Dissertation: Essays on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Committee Chair: Prof. Roberton C. Williams, III
M.S., Economics, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2006
B.A., Economics and Italian, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2001
General Honors and Departmental Honors in Economics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), School of Economics, University of New South Wales, 2010-present
Summer Intern, Resources For the Future, Washington, DC, Summer 2007
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Primary: Labor Economics , Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Secondary: Health Economics, Economics of Education
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, and AWARDS
Australian School of Business Research Grant, The University of New South Wales, 2016
Australian School of Business Research Grant, The University of New South Wales, 2014
Special Research Grant, The University of New South Wales, 2013
Traveling North Award, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2012
Special Research Grant, The University of New South Wales, 2012
Australian School of Business Research Grant, The University of New South Wales, 2011
Economics Department Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010
STAR Fellowship (Science to Achieve Results), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2008-2011 (declined due to acceptance of NMFS-NSGO Fellowship)
Graduate Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2009
Emilie Louise Wells Graduate Fellowship in Economics, Vassar College, 2004-2006
Economics Department Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2004-2005
Ruth Gillette Hutchinson Prize for College Senior Thesis, Vassar College, 2001
Academic All-Conference, Women’s Soccer, New York Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
“Accounting for Outside Options in Discrete Choice Models: An Application to Commercial Fishing Effort'', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
“What Do Fishermen Tell Us That Taxi Drivers Do Not? An Empirical Investigation of Labor Supply'', Journal of
Labor Economics, vol. 33, no. 3., July 2015, 683-710.
“Indoor Air Quality and Academic Performance” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 70, March 2015, 34-50.
WORKING PAPERS
“Returns to Experience and the Elasticity of Labor Supply”, with Scott French (under review).
“Rural-Urban Migration and the Health of Elderly Parents in China'', with X. Zhang and K. Hanewald.
“Residential Electricity Usage: How Do Households Respond to Dynamic Peak Pricing Events?'', with N. Walsh.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Body Weight and Labor Market Outcomes: A Cross-Decade Study'', with G. Castex and E. Dechter.
SEMINARS
2017: University of Hawaii, Macquarie University
2016: University of Technology Sydney, Deakin University, University of Sydney, University of Kansas
2015: Vanderbilt University, Monash University, The Australian National University
2014: University of South Australia, University of Tasmania, Resources For the Future, College of William
and Mary
2013: University of Oregon, University of Wyoming, George Washington University, University of Melbourne,
University of Wollongong
2012: La Trobe University
2011: University of Adelaide; Monash University
2010: University of Sydney
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2017: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Labour Econometrics Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand (discussant)
8th Workshop on the Economics of Health and Wellbeing, Melbourne, Australia (discussant)
2016: Environmental Economics Workshop (hosted by Monash University), Melbourne, Australia
Asian Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Kyoto, Japan
Society of Labor Economists Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
2015: Environmental Economics Workshop (hosted by Monash University), Melbourne, Australia
2014: 7th Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar, Sydney, Australia
International Institute of Fisheries, Economics, and Trade Conference, Brisbane, Australia
Fifth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Istanbul, Turkey
2013: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Banff, Alberta
2012: Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Labour Econometrics Workshop, Wollongong, Australia
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Asheville, NC
Society of Labor Economists Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
56th Annual Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Perth, Australia
2011: The Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, Adelaide, Australia
North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum, Honolulu, HI
55th Annual Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia
2010: Association of Environmental \& Resource Economists Sessions at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, GA
Annual National Marine Fisheries Service - National Sea Grant Office Fellows Meeting, Seattle, WA
2009: Association of Environmental & Resource Economists Sessions at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, TX
46th Annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Economics Association, Kansas City, MO
Heartland Environmental & Resource Economics Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, IL
11th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, CO
Annual IGERT Symposium in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering, Austin, TX
Annual National Marine Fisheries Service – National Sea Grant Office Fellows Meeting, Woods Hole, MA
2008: Association of Environmental & Resource Economists Sessions at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC
10th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, CO
Camp Resources XV, Wilmington, NC
EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics: Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology, Venice, Italy
NBER Summer Institute on Environmental and Energy Economics (research sketch), Cambridge, MA
Annual IGERT Symposium in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering, Austin, TX
10th Occasional California Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, Santa Barbara, CA
2007: NBER Summer Institute on Environmental and Energy Economics (research sketch), Cambridge, MA
Annual IGERT Symposium in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering, Austin, TX
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Thesis Seminar (Honours), The University of New South Wales
Elements of Environmental Economics (First Year Course), The University of New South Wales
Environmental Economics (Second Year Course), The University of New South Wales
STUDENT SUPERVISION
PhD Students: Xiaoyun Zhang (2016-); Xiangling Liu (2012-2015)
Masters Students: Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon (2016-)
Honours Students: Simon Graham (2017); Nathan Walsh (2016); Justin Chan (2015, University Medal Recipient);
Ashvini Ravimohan (2014); James Chu (2013); William Jeffries (2012); Frank Ciarliero (2011)