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.

Broadly, my work falls into three thematic areas: (1) the effects of immigration policy on immigrant welfare, labor markets, and agricultural outcomes; (2) the effects of labor policies and labor market shocks on workers, businesses, and agriculture; and (3) the interaction between trade and labor markets.

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

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

Working Papers

Immigration Enforcement and Local Business Dynamics (with Hugo Sant’Anna)
Under review

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

Does Employer-Based Immigration Enforcement Reduce the Undocumented Immigrant Population? Re-examining the Effects of LAWA (with Hugo Sant’Anna)
Under review

AI Exposure and Entrepreneurship (with Hugo Sant’Anna)
Please email for a draft.

Work in Progress

Temporary Legal Protection as a Buffer against Immigration Enforcement: Employment, Income, and Poverty under DACA (with Ryan Ellis)
Abstract