Education
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University of California, San Diego, economics PhD program (2021 Cohort, expected graduation in 2027)
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University of California, San Diego, 2025, PhD candidate in economics
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University of California, San Diego, 2024, master of arts in economics
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Middlebury College, 2017.5, bachelor of arts, economics with minors in political science and mathematics, summa cum laude, highest honors in economics
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Miramonte High School, 2013
Economics employment
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Jul. 2025, Present. Graduate Fellow, NBER
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Jan. 2025, Present. Research affiliate, UCSD Center for Economic Policy Analysis
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Sep. 2024, June 2025. Teaching assistant, University of California, San Diego
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Jan. 2025, March 2025. Lecturer, San Diego State University
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Sep. 2022, Aug. 2024. Graduate research fellow, National Science Foundation
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Sep. 2021, June 2022. Reader, University of California, San Diego
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Feb. 2018, Jul. 2021. Research associate, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Research interests
My research evaluates the impacts and effectiveness of government policy. I work primarily in applied public economics and labor economics, with published work on housing markets, pandemic-era intergovernmental grants, and emergency food aid. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (through the National Bureau of Economic Research), and Arnold Ventures. I have published academic work in the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Macroeconomics, and policy writing in the Milken Institute Review, in VoxEu, and at the Cato Institute.
PhD Committee
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Jeffrey Clemens (Chair), Professor, Economics, UCSD
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Julie Cullen, Professor, Economics, UCSD
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Gordon Dahl, Professor, Economics, UCSD
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Judson Boomhower, Associate Professor, Economics, UCSD
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Seth Hill, Professor, Political Science, UCSD