I spend about two-thirds of my time working on environmental economics and policy, with an emphasis on biodiversity protection. I am interested in communicating to both economists and conservation practitioners and thus I try to publish in a variety of outlets and attend both economic and biology professional meetings. Most recently, I have been working on applying experimental and quasi-experimental program evaluation methods to conservation interventions.

The rest of my research focuses on experimental methods and behavioral economics.  I’ve conducted research on the economics of cultural diversity and discrimination, the relationship between competence and self-awareness and its implications for economic behavior, racial differences in investment behavior, the design of experiments that more cleanly identify other-regarding preferences (as opposed to subject confusion that mimics other-regarding preferences), and children’s non-cognitive attributes (e.g., time and risk preferences) and their role in affecting educational outcomes.