I am an applied microeconomist with interests in education policy, labor policy, and improving equity for disadavantaged groups. Across my work, I use cutting edge quasi-experimental and experimental methods to assess the impact of programs and policies.
I have been a Social Science Economics Senior Analyst at Abt Global since August 2024 where I worked on evaluations in education and job training, and technical assistance for quantitative researchers. My previous academic research focused on barriers to entering STEM fields for women and underrepresented minorities and programs to improve adolescent mental health.
I was recently affected by mass layoffs resulting from cuts to government funding for social policy research and am open to new opportunities both within and outside of the policy-research space. Please do not hesitate to reach out by email if you would like to connect!
Ph.D. in Economics, 2024
University of California, San Diego
M.A. in Economics, 2020
University of California, San Diego
B.A. in Economics, 2019
Williams College
B.A. in Computer Science, 2019
Williams College
This paper looks at the effect of access to a School-Based Health Center on suspensions and dropouts, two metrics that may be strong proxies for adolescent mental health status. Using a difference-in-differences model with a propensity-score matched sample of control schools, I find that in California, access to a school-based health center decreases school-level suspension rates by around 1.4 percentage points within 3 years of the opening.
Through an RCT at a large research university, I find that providing undergraduate students in an introductory Economics course with information about potential careers, income, research topics, and diversity in the field of Economics increases the likelihood of enrolling in a subsequent Economics course for underrepresented minority students by around 12.3 percentage points and that the information induces primarily lower-performing students to enroll.