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Current Graduate Students
	Name: Muhammad Adnan Shahid Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: Dissertation:
	Name: Mohammad Mashiur Rahman Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: Fall 2020 Dissertation: Estimating the preference for a better solid waste management system.
	Name: Mandy Liu Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, Univcersity of New Mexico PhD year expected: Spring 2020 Dissertation: Stronger Transition: Coping Strategies with Natural Disasters and Health-economic Investment for Adolescents in Developing Countries
	Name: Aakrit Joshi Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: Spring 2020 Dissertation: Understanding smoking and smokeless tobacco usage
	Name: Disha Shende Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: Summer 2020 Dissertation: Can social network help improving the emotional health of cancer patients? A study from Nepal
	Name: Siobhan Yilmaz Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: May 2020 Dissertation: Adolescent Mental Health in the Developing World: Economic Analyses of Stressors, Support & Coping Mechanisms.
	Name: Niraj Khatiwada Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico; ICIMOD Doctoral Fellow PhD year expected: Dissertation: Estimating the public preference for air quality improvement and understanding the health effects of exposure to air pollution.
	Name: Soumyajit Chakraborty Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor, Dept. of Economics, UNM; Research Assistant, UNM School of Medicine PhD year expected: Spring 2020 Dissertation: Three Essays on Human Capital
	Name: Thaneshwar paneru Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico PhD year expected: May 2022 Dissertation:
Past Graduate Students
	Name: José Bucheli Current Position/Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New Mexico State University PhD year: Summer 2019 Dissertaton: Migration, return migration, and economic development in latin America
	Name: Kristina Piorkowski Current Position/Affiliation: Presbyterian Hospital PhD year: Spring 2019 Dissertaton: Understanding adn modifying health behaviors
	Name: Soumi Roy Chowdhury Current Position: Natioanl Council for Applied Economic Researc (NCAER), India PhD year: Spring 2019 Dissertaton: An analysis of socio-economic consequences of cancer in Nepal
	Name: Samrat Kunwar Current Position: Assistant Professor, College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University PhD year: Spring 2019 Disseration: Freshwater conservation, drinking water quality, and climate change adaptation: a case study of Nepal
	Name: Veeshan Rayamajhee Current Position: Assistant Professor, Departement of Economics, North Dakota State University PhD year: Spring 2019 Disseration: Ostronomian lessons for post-disaster resilience: Evidence from 2015 earthquake in Nepal

	Name: Wenmei Guo PhD year: May 2015 Dissertation: “Climate Change, Poverty, and Household Food Security in Rural Nepal”
	Name: Menuka Karki Current Position/Affiliation: Visiting Assistant Professor, Departemtn of Economics and Finance, Louisiana Tech University PhD year : May 2015 Dissertation: “Towards Reaching Sustainable Urban Development in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal: An Economic Analysis of Solid Waste Management, Recycling, and the Health Impacts of Air Pollution”
	Name: Robby Fonner Current Position/Affiliation: Economist, NOAA Fisheries Email: robby.fonner@noaa.gov PhD year: 2014 Dissertation: Examining the influence of landscape on natural resource management in the american west: a geospatial approach
	Name: Naresh Nepal Current Position: Research Scientist , Health Science Center PhD year: 2014 Dissertation: " A Geospatial Approach to Wildlife and Wilderness Management"
	Name: Steven J. Archambault Current Position/Affiliation: Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University PhD year: 2012 Dissertation: “Food Security: Resiliency and Intervention”
	Name: Nafisa Halim Current Position/Affiliation: Assistant (Research) Professor, Department of Global Health, Boston University. Email: nhalim@bu.edu PhD year: 2010 Nafisa Halim, MA, PhD is an applied sociologist with research interests in the determinants and consequences of human capital formation (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition) among women, children and adolescents and program evaluation. Halim’s current research examines the associations between women’s political empowerment and gender-gaps in primary education in India, parental access to credit market and child growth in India, Vietnam, Peru and Ethiopia, and cash transfer program participation and female secondary education in Bangladesh. Halim has consulted with the World Health Organization, and served as a co-Investigator on research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Agency for International Development, and private foundations. Halim’s research has been published in Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Journal of International Development, Environment and Development Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Social Science Research. Halim received her postdoctoral training in Social Demography at Emory University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology and M.A.s in Sociology and Economics from the University of New Mexico.
	Name: Hari Katuwal Current Position/Affiliation: Post-Doc, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana PhD year: 2012 Dissertation: “Demand for water quality: empirical evidence from a knowledge, attitude, behavior, and choice experiment survey about the Bagmati river in Kathmandu, Nepal”
	Name: James Ian Price Current Position: PhD year: 2012 Dissertation: " Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes"
	Name: Bishwa S. Koirala Current Position/Affiliation: Director of Economic and Business Research Center and Assistant professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Pembroke PhD year: 2010 Dissertation: Measuring effects of climate change and energy efficiency regulations in US households Research concentration: Current research is in the area of applied economics, environmental and natural resources economics, non-market valuation, ecosystem analysis and valuation, renewable energy technology, agricultural productivity, energy policy, climate impact analysis and environmental Kuznet curve analysis. Current ongoing research in Nepal is natural calamities and welfare loss in Kohsi River Basin in Nepal. Research articles are available https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bishwa_Koirala/publications
	Name: Mani Nepal Current Position : Research Programme Manager, SANDEE PhD year : 2007 Dissertation: "Poverty, inequality, violent conflict, and welfare loss : micro-level evidence from Nepal"
	Name: Michael Milligan Current Position: PhD year: 2009 Dissertation: "The Welfare Effects of International Remittance Income"