Current Employment
- California State University, Fullerton
- Lecturer: August 2025—Present
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Education
- University of California, Irvine
- Ph.D. in Economics (2024)
- Boston University
- M.A. in Economics (2015)
- University of New Hampshire
- B.S. in Economics (2012)
- Institutional Honors: Cum Laude
Past Employment
- University of California, Irvine
- Postdoctoral Scholar: June 2024—December 2025
- Graduate Student Researcher for Nancy RodrÃguez: August 2023—June 2024
- Graduate Teaching Assistant: September 2018—June 2023
- Graduate Student Researcher for Michael McBride: August 2020—September 2020
- Graduate Student Researcher for Matt Harding: September 2019—March 2020
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics
- Senior Research Support Associate: November 2015—August 2018
Awards and Fellowships
- University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Travel Fellowship, University of California Irvine, 2024
- Department of Economics Travel Fellowship, University of California Irvine, 2024
- Summer Research Fellowship, University of California Irvine, 2023
- Dean's Workshop and Reading Group Grant, University of California Irvine, 2021-2022
- Associate Dean Fellowship, University of California Irvine, Fall 2021
Research
Working Papers
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Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Pretrial Process: Evidence from Local Criminal Justice Systems (draft available upon request), with Nancy Rodriguez, Laura Beckman, and Santiago Campos-Rodriguez
Updated 2025
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Estimating the Impact of Public Policy with Unobserved Variation
Updated December 2025
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The Effects of Minimum Wage Policy on Self-Employment: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Updated December 2023
Work in Progress
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Minimum Wages, Gig Work, and Worker Welfare, with Lu Wang
Updated 2026
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Asset Market Participation, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy, with Lu Wang and Sarah Xiao
Updated 2026
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Misdemeanor Bail Reform and the Cost of Incarceration: Evidence from the ODonnell Consent Decree, with Nancy Rodriguez
Updated 2025
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Layers of Injustice: Exploring Racial Cumulative Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, with Nancy Rodriguez, Laura Beckman, and Santiago Campos-Rodriguez
Updated 2025
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Gender Differences and Incentives in Competition: New Evidence from Tennis Grand Slam Tournaments
Updated June 2024
Reports and Other Publications
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Local Criminal Justice Systems with Nancy Rodriguez, Santiago Campos-Rodriguez, and Joanna Williams
Safety and Justice Challenge, February 2025 [MEDIA]
Conferences and Seminars (including scheduled)
- 2026: ASSA Annual Meeting Poster Session (Philadelphia, PA), California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
- 2025: WEAI 100th Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA) (Scheduled), MEA 89th Annual Conference (Kansas City, MO)
- 2024: WEAI 99th Annual Conference (Seattle, WA), MEA 88th Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)
Service
- 2023: Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics (Organizer)
Refereeing
- National Tax Journal
Teaching
California State University, Fullerton
- Principles of Macroeconomics: Fall 2025
- Principles of Microeconomics: Spring 2026
- Intermediate Business Microeconomics: Spring 2026
University of California, Irvine: Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Probability and Statistics in Economics I: Fall 2018
- Probability and Statistics in Economics II: Summer 2019
- An Economic Approach to Religion: Spring 2020
- The Economics of Accounting Decisions: Summer 2019, Summer 2020
- Intermediate Economics II: Spring 2021
- Applied Econometrics I: Winter 2019, Fall 2020
- Applied Econometrics II: Winter 2022, Summer 2022, Winter 2023
- Introduction to Financial Investments: Summer 2021
- Economic Development: Winter 2021
- Economics of International Business: Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Basic Economics I: Fall 2022
- Income Inequality: Spring 2023