I am an adjunct instructor in the Department of Economics and a postdoctoral fellow at the Knee Regulatory Research Center and the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University. 

I earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Texas Tech University and a Master of Science in International Agribusiness from North Dakota State University. I also completed a certificate course in Applied AI and Data Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

My research interests include health economics, public 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.