Recent Publications

Agroforestry is widely purported to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, rehabilitate degraded landscapes, and enhance the …

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. …
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Agroforestry is widely purported to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, rehabilitate degraded landscapes, and enhance the …
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Teaching

I have served as teaching assistant for the following courses at Duke University:

  • Public Policy 810: Microeconomics & Policy
  • Public Policy 303: Microeconomic Tools for Policy Analysis
  • Public Policy 304: Economics of the Public Sector

Recent Posts

The Belt & Road Initiative HKTDC Research This week the World Bank published the policy research working paper I had the …
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My Haiku App In 2018, I made a web app for 12 users, all of them family and friends. It did only one thing: collect and display …
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In the fall I had the opportunity to visit Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China for a conference on China’s Belt and Road …
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Update: this study is now published! The final version is now available (open access) in World Development. Agroforestry—planting trees …
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