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. Jan 2026.
Ungated Preprint
Adapted from a joint Ph.D. second-year paper

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
Under review

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

Work in Progress

Labor Supply Shocks and Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the 1964 Bracero Termination

Temporary Legalization, Enforcement Risk, and the Economic Lives of Immigrants (with Ryan Ellis)

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

Re-examining the Effects of Employer-Based Immigration Enforcement (with Hugo Sant’Anna)