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Graduate Student

I have always looked at teaching as a learning process whose objective is not only learning for students but also learning for the teacher; and whose domain is not only the subject matter but also life experience. I have often felt that the ultimate purpose of education should not be a mere accumulation of knowledge. Rather, knowledge has to be applied in problem solving to reap the fruits of education. Such a long term and high commitment process requires hard work and persistence, search and discovery, patience and resilience, and trial and error. One of my favorite pedagogical approaches is

I am an environmental economist with secondary interests in development economics. My research focuses on various aspects of policy implementation: monitoring and enforcement, manipulable thresholds, environmental justice, information, and environmental health. I examine these issues in the context of water pollution regulations but my work has implications for other media.

Staff

Energy, Environmental and Health Economics

I am an economist specializing in industrial organization and my research mostly focuses on how firms choose what products to offer and how to sell them. I have analyzed topics such as competition in online markets; competition among retailers; the effect of new agricultural technologies on quality of offered food items; and changes of nutrition quality over time, among others.

Resource Economics Lecturer

Graduate Student