He received his Ph.D. in Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, and his research fields of interest include Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Public Economics. He has published papers on the role of financial constraints in environmental performance, and welfare accounting of environmental regulations, in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, and presented his research at a wide-range of institutions such as the World Bank, California Air Resources Board, and Chicago Transit Authority.