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)
Journal of Economic Geography. Forthcoming.

The End of Free Movement and International Migration (with Hugo Sant’Anna)
Economics Letters. Dec 2025.
[Ungated Preprint]

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

Revisiting the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on SNAP Participation using Dynamic Difference-in-Differences (with Haewon Oh and Travis A. Smith) [Earlier version, prior to substantial revisions, available here]

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)