Samya Aboutajdine
Samya Aboutajdine investigates the determinants of private investments in disaster resilience, leveraging granular building permit data across the United States. Her research explores how federal and state interventions—such as disaster relief and industrial policy—shape the construction and upgrading of resilient infrastructure. By combining large language models analysis, causal inference, and economic modeling, she identifies patterns in how households and firms adapt to disaster risks and policy incentives.