I am an applied microeconomist with research focused on how individuals and communities manage risk. This work draws from development, behavioral, financial, environmental, and agricultural economics. My job market paper structurally estimates competing behavioral and neoclassical models of agricultural insurance uptake using randomized trial data from Sichuan, China, and benchmarks them against machine learning algorithms to assess predictive performance. Other projects of mine study the bundling of indexed financial instruments, how incentives and framing affect collaboration norms, and the collective action impacts of a conservation program.

I am on the 2025/2026 non-academic job market.

You can contact me at cfhoffman@ucdavis.edu