My work focuses on environmental policymaking–mainly how political institutions mediate the relationship between constituents’ environmental preferences and policymakers’ incentives and actions. I also study the distributional consequences over space and time of decisions about natural resources and how those play into policymaking. I develop methods for using new digital data sources, including text and satellite images, to measure individual and group preferences and observe outcomes on the ground. I use those to help understand preferences for different policies and the effects of those policies.
