Welcome! I’m a Ph.D. student in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and I’m currently on the job market. My primary field is empirical macroeconomics, with interests in macro-labor, business cycles, and long-run growth. 

My job market paper identifies the effects of bargaining shocks on output, unemployment, and the labor share by combining minimal theory with the narrative approach pioneered by Romer and Romer (1989). I draw on historical and institutional evidence to track how the stance of the U.S. executive branch toward capital–labor conflict has evolved over time. I find that this approach sharpens the identification bargaining shocks and conclude that increases in the bargaining power of workers lead to contractions in economic activity in the long-run. Bargaining shocks account for about one-third of output fluctuations across horizons, and were a significant driver of recessions before the 1990s.