Research
Working Papers
Research in Progress
Higher Education Expansion, Human Capital Formation, and Structural Transformation
Female-Led Structural Transformation: College Access and the Schooling Ladder
Risky Moves: Labor Market Risk & Migratory Decisions
Early Stage Work
General Equilibrium Effects of a Positive Return to Schooling Shock
The Effects of Migration Frictions and School Locations on Intergenerational Mobility
Undergraduate Thesis
Mount Holyoke College Honors Thesis, 2020. Awarded the Phoebe Tulman Perlman Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics and the Mary Lyon Scholar Award for an Exceptional Thesis.
Policy Writing
From 2020 to 2022 I was a Research Associate at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, where I co-authored policy analyses on education, labor, and fiscal policy.
Labor and Education
- Total Cost of Universal Pre-K, Including New Facilities, PWBM, 2022
- The Decline in Fertility: The Role of Marriage and Education, PWBM, 2022
- Covid-19 Learning Loss: Long-run Macroeconomic Effects Update, PWBM, 2021
- Economic Effects from Preschool and Childcare Programs, PWBM, 2021
- COVID-19 School Closures: Long-run Macroeconomic Effects, PWBM, 2021
- COVID-19: Cost of Virtual Schooling by Race and Income, PWBM, 2021
- School Reopening During COVID-19: A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Philadelphia Suburbs, PWBM, 2021
- COVID: Trade-Offs in School Reopening, PWBM, 2020
Fiscal Policy
- H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Act: Budget and Macroeconomic Effects, PWBM, 2022
- Macroeconomic Effects of the White House Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation Framework, PWBM, 2021
- Senators Manchin and Schumer’s 2021 Senate Budget Reconciliation Agreement: Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects, PWBM, 2021
- The Macroeconomic Effects of the August 2021 Budget Reconciliation Package, PWBM, 2021
- President Biden’s FY2022 Budget Proposal: Budgetary and Economic Effects, PWBM, 2021
- PWBM Analysis of the Biden Platform, PWBM, 2020
- What If the Federal Government Hits the Debt Limit? American Action Forum, 2019