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Research & Consultancy

 

Below I've included examples of my work conducting sustainable development focused research & writing.

 
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A mutual gains strategy to guide successful public-private partnership on rural development in the colombian countryside 

This report presents an analysis of the opportunities for the World Business Council on Sustainable Development to cultivate land-based investments that confer benefits to Colombia's climate change and land reform agenda. 

 

 

Econometric Impact Evaluation of Mercy Corps’ Prime Program

This report presents econometric analysis of the impact of Mercy Corps Pastoralist Resilience program (PRIME) which aimed to dampen climate shocks in Ethiopia through a diverse set of market-wide interventions. My co-authors and I analyse the household level survey data provided by Mercy Corps and conduct a difference-in-differences estimation of PRIME’s impact, comparing outcomes across time in communities with relatively high intensity roll out of PRIME to communities with low intensity roll out of PRIME.

 
 
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recommendations for the cplc pathway to advance global carbon pricing

This report outlines a path for the World Bank's Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition to increase adoption of carbon pricing in the private sector by creating an interactive marketing campaign focused on firms' climate related risk exposure.

 
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the challenges and opportunities of colombia's land restitution regime: A path to stability and sustainable rural development

This report presents an analysis of the challenges and opportunities inherent to Colombia's land restitution policy framework.

 
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Estimating farm resilience as a function of farm size with remote sensing techniques: An analysis of a World Bank Climate-SMART Agriculture program in Brazil

This report presents an analysis of the the relationship between farm size and farm resilience on a large sample of farms that were the beneficiaries of a World Bank funded Climate-SMART agriculture program in the Brazilian Cerrado.

One of the plots from my analysis of farm size and farm “resilience”, as estimated with remote sensing techniques