I am an applied microeconomist studying how to evaluate and improve the performance of public sector organizations and how government policies affect workers and firms. My research explores the role of management and personnel practices in public sector organizations and the impact of government policies targeting disadvantaged regions and workers. To study these topics, I primarily rely on rich administrative datasets combined with natural experiments or randomized control trials. I also examine aspects of public sector productivity and effectiveness that are not traditionally available in administrative records. To this end, I rely on survey data to capture these additional dimensions—such as the perceived benefits and costs of government policies, the obstacles to improving performance, and the value that final users place on different aspects of the public services provided.
I earned a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley, and I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at The George Washington University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Labor Studies and Political Economy programs). I am also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin, and the Institute for International Economic Policy. My work has been published in leading journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and spans labor economics, organizational economics, and political economy.
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