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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

My research sits at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and economic history, studying the cultural and institutional roots of conflict, cooperation, and long-run growth. Using quasi-experimental methods, I pursue three connected questions: how religion and group identity shape (armed) conflict, how the social environments people inhabit shape their economic lives, and how the institutions of the past set the course of growth in the present.