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 # About
 I am a PhD economist from [Washington State University's School of Economic Sciences](https://ses.wsu.edu/), specializing in econometrics and industrial organization. With over 10 years of experience spanning consulting, industry, academia, and government sectors, I bring a comprehensive background to my work.
 
+My research has focused on applied econometrics and statistical methods, making contributions to new econometric methods and applications in various areas such as resource, food, labor, and health economics. 
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 My dissertation involved various econometric analyses of choice behavior of consumers and households facing discrete and dynamic choice processes, respectively. For example, it provided the first empirical application of an innovative [semi-parametric binary response estimator](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2017.10.006), which I applied to estimate the willingness to pay for recreation demand using a stated-preference contingent valuation survey dataset. 
 
 During an internship at the [USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS), Branch of Diet, Health and Safety](https://www.ers.usda.gov/), I help enhance the analytical usefulness of Nielsen Homescan panel data -- a nationwide longitudinal database on food purchase transactions of U.S. households. Using this panel dataset, I examined household purchase dynamics for dietary fiber using a dynamic Tobit model that accounts for the effect of past purchases on current fiber purchase decisions. For more details see [here](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3106101).