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, and public economics. I am interested in topics related to U.S. agricultural labor and the causes and effects of (im)migration shocks.
Working Papers
Trade Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Labor-Intensive Crops [Please email for a draft]
Labor Market Effects of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis in Brazil (with Hugo Sant’Anna) [R&R Journal of Economic Geography]
Minimum Wage and SNAP Participation among Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Agricultural Sector (with Haewon Oh and Travis A. Smith) [Submitted]
Public Perceptions on Undocumented Agricultural Workers (with Vitalis Othuon, Benjamin Campbell, William Secor, and Daniel Tregeagle) [Under review]
The End of Free Movement and International Migration (with Hugo Sant’Anna) [Submitted]