Development Economist · MS International and Development Economics, University of San Francisco
I study how conflict, institutions, and policy shape economic outcomes for women in low- and middle-income countries. My work combines large-scale survey microdata with geocoded conflict and satellite data to identify causal effects in settings where experiments aren't possible.
Conflict, Information Access, and Women's Digital Exclusion · MSc Thesis, 2026
Armed conflict reduces women's weekly media access by 5.8 percentage points and internet use by 16.2 percentage points, while mobile ownership is unchanged — pointing to infrastructure disruption as the dominant mechanism. Five countries, 18 DHS survey waves, 2007–2024.
Conditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Autonomy in Nigeria · SUREP Research Paper, 2025
Difference-in-differences evaluation of Nigeria's SURE-P MCH program finds no significant effect on women's household decision-making autonomy, suggesting financial incentives alone are insufficient to shift gender relations.
R Stata fixest ggplot2 sf DHS microdata ACLED WorldPop TWFE DiD
All replication code is publicly available in the repositories below.