Samyam Shrestha

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. My research overlaps agricultural, labor, regional, and public economics.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Labor Market Effects of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis in Brazil (with Hugo Sant’Anna) [Forthcoming at Journal of Economic Geography]

The End of Free Movement and International Migration (with Hugo Sant’Anna) [Forthcoming at Economics Letters]

Working Papers

Trade Effects of Immigration Enforcement in Labor-Intensive Agriculture

The Evolution of Economic and Welfare Gaps between Low-Skill Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Workers in the United States

Minimum Wage and SNAP Enrollment among Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Agricultural Sector (with Haewon Oh and Travis A. Smith)

Public Perceptions on Undocumented Agricultural Workers (with Vitalis Othuon, Benjamin Campbell, William Secor, and Daniel Tregeagle)

Selected Work in Progress

Labor Costs and Land Allocation in U.S. Agriculture (with Christian Valencia)