Current Research

My research interests include water economics, water and sanitation, environmental health, nonmarket valuation, trans-boundary water resource planning and management, and the impacts and economics of climate change. The objective of my work is to further understanding of resource management at two physico-social scales: the individual- or household-level decision-making level (a microeconomic scale), and the resource-level (spanning from local to regional scales, broadly defined). In the past, I served in the Peace Corps in Mali and worked with the World Bank.

Recent or Active Research Projects by Theme

	Systems analysis, especially of the hydroeconomics of transboundary river systems Economic analysis of potential Blue Nile hydropower projects Strategic Basin Assessment for the Ganges River Basin Economics of wastewater reuse Understanding economic tradeoffs in the Nam Ngum Basin Modeling land use and hydrological interactions in the French Broad River Digo Jal Bikas – River basin planning and ecosystem services in Western Nepal
	Technology adoption and characterization of demand for environmental health improvements in developing countries Peace Corps work with Sema Saniya (Bamako, Mali) Estimating private demand for cholera vaccines (Beira, Mozambique) Water quality information and household water and hygiene behaviors (Andhra Pradesh, India) Understanding households responses to changes in water pricing Understanding preferences for point-of-use chlorination in peri-urban communities (Cambodia) Assessing the health effects of naturally-occurring groundwater contamination (Rift Valley, Ethiopia) Exploring linkages between water quality and chronic kidney disease (Sri Lanka) Promoting adoption and use of cleaner-burning cookstoves: TRAction project Understanding complementarity in environmental health investments / Promoting adoption of improved cookstoves (Udaipur District, Rajasthan) Incentives for increased use of clean cookstoves (Cambodia) Measuring demand for clean air in Asian mega-cities
	Analysis of the costs and benefits of environmental health and quality interventions Analysis of benefits and costs of environmental health interventions Evaluating the impacts of investments in urban water and sewerage in Zarqa, Jordan Sustainability of sanitation promotion and long-term impacts on health (Orissa, India) Measuring the impacts of clean cooking technologies Electricity unreliability: Implications for household air pollution (India) Review work and commentaries related to household air pollution