
I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics and environmental science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
My research investigates how environmental change and policies shape and is shaped by patterns of social and economic inequalities. My recent projects have been centered on equity issues arising from water scarcity in California.
Email: sandysum@ucsb.edu
Advisor: Tamma Carleton
Committee: Chris Costello, Olivier Deschênes, Kyle Meng
Working papers
Water Markets and Labor Effects
Sandy Sum (2023)
Assessing the Impact of Droughts on Drinking Water Disparities in California
Sandy Sum (2023)
Parameter recovery with remotely sensed variables
Jonathan Proctor*, Tamma Carleton*, and Sandy Sum* (In prep, 2023)
Publications
with emLab (June 2023)
Policy Brief, Nature Energy
Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction
with emLab (May 2023)
Nature Energy
Policy reports
Enhancing equity while eliminating emissions in California’s supply of transportation fuels
CalEPA report with emLab (2021)