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Research Statement

I'm interested in estimating the impact of climate change on real economic activities and understanding how micro-level shocks affect the global production process. My research examines how extreme heat shocks associated with climate change impact worker-level labor market layoff, hiring, and job reallocation in Brazil, how temperature shocks affect within-industry resource reallocation among heterogeneous firms in Indonesia, and how the global commodity boom affected worldwide deforestation around mine sites in the early 2000s. In a second research agenda focused on international trade, I study how worldwide natural disasters and country-specific policy changes affect the dynamics of cross-border supply chains using novel data constructed from bill-of-lading records. Across disciplines, my research uses employer-employee linked administrative records, firm-level industrial surveys, customs records and pixel-based satellite data to understand the mechanisms of how micro-level shocks from environmental and policy changes affect economic agents and the global production process, shedding light on aggregate adjustment with targeted policy implications.