B.S in International Business - Saint Louis University
B.S. in Economics - Saint Louis University
M.S. in International and Development Economics - University of San Francisco
Biography
Ryan is a third year PhD student in the Applied Economics program at the University of Minnesota. Previously, Ryan held an appointment at the University of Michigan, through the Institute for Social Research and Population Studies Center working alongside Prof. Dean Yang. Ryan is also a graduate student member of the Minnesota Population Center, and is an active member of the Johnson Polasky Lab and Glewwe Development Lab. Ryan is a student member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE).
His research lies at the intersection of environmental economics and development economics. Using causal inference methods to identify structural models, Ryan takes an applied microeconomics approach to questions related to the tradeoffs between economic growth and environmental preservation, behavioral and market-related solutions to climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as the equilibrium effect of policy interventions aimed at economic growth. While his primary fields lie within environment and development, Ryan more broadly studies questions within applied microeconomics related to behavioral economics and urban economics topics.
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Development Economics
- Behavioral Economics