I am a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. I work with the empirical macro group, primarily on macro-labor topics using a micro-data toolkit.
I hold a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Virginia (2022). I am completing an M.S. in Economics at Drexel University part-time (finishing Dec 2026) while working full-time at the Fed.
In my (very limited) free hours, I play viola in the South Jersey Pops symphony!
My work is primarily microeconomic in data and method. At the Fed, I work in the Empirical Macro section of the Research Department, supporting the research of Senior Economic Advisor and Economist Shigeru Fujita, and I also spend part of my time on the PRISM-II DSGE model. I have extensive experience with CPS Basic Monthly, CPS ASEC, and PSID data, as well as restricted-access Social Security data, the Health and Retirement Study, the American Community Survey, the Fujita–Ramey expanded Palmer data, and a range of macroeconomic time series.
A non-technical article examining the trade-offs between work incentives and child poverty in the design of the Child Tax Credit.
I study whether certain professions have become more or less "heritable" over time, estimating the task-based similarity between parent and child occupations and how it has evolved.
I estimate the degree to which undocumented immigration drives increased nonresponse — and specifically refusal — in the CPS, and examine how rising refusal rates may bias employment statistics. I hope to produce a reweighting procedure that better reconciles the household and payroll surveys.
Using a bespoke dataset of facilities condition assessments from the School District of Philadelphia, I explore relationships between facilities quality and demographic composition, enrollment flows, and attendance — and whether facilities decline is capitalized in catchment home values.
I examine how accessible childcare alters the screening effects of welfare work requirements, using SNAP and the 2014 CCDBG reauthorization for identification.
For additional undergraduate work, see the archive.
A home for my non-academic writing — essays, commentary, and shorter pieces that don't fit neatly under research.
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