Laxman Subedi is a third-year Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Oklahoma. He holds master's degrees in economics from the University of Oklahoma and Tribhuvan University, and an MBA from Kathmandu University. His research interests include development economics, labor economics, and environmental and climate economics. He focuses on how climate variability and change shape household adaptation, labor market outcomes, and socioeconomic inequality.
His current research investigates the effects of rainfall shocks on male migration and women’s labor allocation in Nepal. He also studies how climate variation affects earnings in the United States. Across these projects, he seeks to understand how environmental shocks affect livelihoods and human welfare, with particular attention to differences in vulnerability and adaptive capacity across socioeconomic groups.
