I am a doctoral candidate in Economics at the University of California San Diego with an interest in policies that improve outcomes for disadvantaged or underrepresented populations. My current work has two strands: (1) evaluating school-based policies that address adolescent mental health; and (2) identifying and addressing the barriers faced by women and underrepresented minority students in STEM and other high-return fields.
My job market paper focuses on the effect of school-based healthcare on adolescent behavioral outcomes that are linked to untreated mental health issues.
I have a strong interest in working in education and health policy spaces and will be available for interviews for the 2023-2024 job market. You can find my research statement
PhD in Economics, 2024 (Expected)
University of California, San Diego
MS in Economics, 2020
University of California, San Diego
BA in Economics, 2019
Williams College
BA 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.
TA: Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
TA: Fall 2021, 2022
TA: Winter 2023
TA: Fall 2020