I am a Ph.D. student at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management pursuing the Economics and Environmental Science (EES) specialization. I am interested in how institutional factors influence environmental and resource outcomes and how institutional change is driven by a collective response to address these problems.
My research is mainly empirical and often in a historical setting. One current project looks at rectangular land grids in early American cities and investigates their role in property rights security, population growth, and the location of industry and public infrastructure. Two other projects I work on are generally concerned with the determinants of institutional adoption and public goods provision in common-pool resource settings with a focus on the level of heterogeneity within a group of resource users and its consequences.
Trevor's research is mainly empirical and often in a historical setting. One current project looks at rectangular land grids in early American cities and investigates their role in property rights security, population growth, and the location of industry and public infrastructure. Two other projects he works on are generally concerned with the determinants of institutional adoption and public goods provision in common-pool resource settings with a focus on the level of heterogeneity within a group of resource users and its consequences.
Trevor graduated with a PhD from UCSB. He has begun his postdoc at Harvard.