PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Economics), 2012
JD, Yale Law School, 2015 (expected)
Research
Why Oppose Secession? Evidence of Economic Motivations from the American Civil War, Public Choice, Forthcoming [pdf]
Does State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (with Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, and William Gui Woolston), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Forthcoming [pdf]
Do Property Rights Promote Investment But Cause Deforestation? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Revised and Resubmitted, January 2012 [pdf]
Endogeneity in the Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Instrumental Variables Approach (with C.-Y. Cynthia Lin), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Forthcoming [pdf] [online appendix A (tables)] [online appendix B (figures)]
Labor Market Policy for Inefficient Job Rationing During Recessions (with William Gui Woolston), Submitted, May 2012 [pdf] [online appendix]
