I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Knee Regulatory Research Center and the Center for Free Enterprise in the John Chambers College of Business & Economics at West Virginia University. 

I earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Texas Tech University, as well as a Master of Science in International Agribusiness and a graduate certificate in New Institutional Social Sciences from North Dakota State University. 

My research interests include health economics, public health policy, international economics, economic development, and agribusiness. My recent research delves into the opioid crisis, regulatory responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, scope of practice, and occupational licensing. I explore these topics using contemporary causal inference techniques. My earlier work spans topics such as willingness to pay, climate change, pesticide use, food safety, environmental pollution, foreign aid, women’s empowerment, education, and economic growth.