CV

Academic Positions 

2017-                 Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business

2021 (Fall)      Visiting Scholar, OIGI, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

2021-                 Affiliated Researcher, HCEO

2019-                 Affiliated Researcher, VATT

2016 - 2017      Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Fellow), University College London 

2016-                 External Researcher, Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

Education 

2016                PhD, Economics, Yale University 

                              Dissertation: “Human Capital Accumulation over the Life Cycle” 

                              Advisors: Joseph Altonji, Lisa Kahn, Costas Meghir, Nancy Qian 

2014                 M.Phil., Economics, Yale University 

2012                 M.A., Economics, Yale University 

2009                 B.A., Mathematics and Economics (with highest distinction), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Fellowships, Honors and Awards: 

2023     Marshall Teaching Excellence Award (monetary award for exceptional teaching)

2023     Golden Apple Teaching Award (voted as favorite professor in the MBA core)

2021                 Dr. Douglas Basil Award (awarded to 1 junior faculty member every two years for exceptional teaching)

2021                 Golden Apple Teaching Award (voted as 1 of 5 favorite undergraduate professors)   

2015                 ISPS and Yale Economics Department Awards for summer research 

2015-2016       Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies Fellowship 

2015-2016       Yale University Graduate Dissertation Fellowship 

2013                 Royichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship 

2010-2013       NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 

2010-2015       Yale University Fellowship 

2005-2009       Morehead-Cain Scholarship, UNC Chapel Hill 

2008                 Phi Beta Kappa (inducted junior year) 

Published and Forthcoming Papers: 

“Violence Against Women at Work” with Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, and Ning Zhang, Forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics

"The Impacts of an Early Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility", with Martti Kaila and Krista Riukula, accepted at Journal of Labor Economics

"What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same Sex Couples " with Martin Andresen, 2022 Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 40, Number 4

“Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India” with Orazio Attanasio and Costas Meghir, NBER Working Paper 21740, 2020 Review of Economic Studies Vol. 87 Issue 6

“Human Capital Growth and Poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and Peru” with Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir, and Francesca Salvati, 2017, Review of Economic Dynamics, 25: 234-259

“Bridging the Gender Gap: Identifying What is Holding Self-Employed Women Back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo”, with Elisa Gamberoni and Rachel Heath, 2016, World Bank Economic Review, 30(3): 501-521

Working Papers: 

“Dynamics of Abusive Relationships” with Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, and Ning Zhang, revise and resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Economics

“You Can't Force Me Into Caregiving: Paternity Leave and the Child Penalty”, with Martin Andresen, revised and resubmitted at Economic Journal

“Financial Crime and Punishment” with Kristiina Huttunen, Martti Kaila, and David Macdonald, revised and resubmitted at AEJ: Economic Policy

"We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Response to Dobbs V. Jackson", with Pawel Adrjan, Svenja Gudell, Allison Shrivastava, Jason Sockin, and Evan Starr, submitted

“How Asylum Seekers in the United States Respond to Their Judges: Evidence and Implications” with Thomas Ash, submitted

"Dating and Breaking Up With the Boss: Economics Costs, Benefits, and Spillovers" with David Macdonald and Jerry Montonen

"Who's Hurt the Most? Graduating Into a Recession and Transmission of Inequality Across Generations" with Martti Kaila and Jerry Montonen, submitted

“Black-White Income Inequality During Jim Crow: Evidence from 'Passing' for White" with Ricardo Dahis and Nancy Qian

“Learning Spillovers in the Firm”

"The Punishment Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant Outcomes" with Kristiina Huttunen and Martti Kaila

Seminar and Conference Presentations: 

2023     (including scheduled) University of Calgary, University of South Carolina, Paris School of Economics, University College Dublin, LISER, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, University of Bergen, LMU, SOLE, Bocconi University CLEAN Seminar, NBER SI Gender Economics, VICE, Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, University of Chicago Harris, UW-Milwaukee, Brookings, UCLA, UVA, Empirical Management Conference, NBER Organizational Economics

2022     Georgetown, SMU, University of Oregon, Washington State University, ASSA, University of Antwerp, Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), BLS, California Corporate Finance Conference at LMU, Economic History Association 2022 Meeting in Wisconsin, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Washington Seattle, Northwestern Economic History Lunch, IFC Empirical Management Conference, NBER SI Personnel Economics

2021     Yale Cowles Foundation Conference in Labor Economics and Public Finance, VATT, CEP/LSE Policing and Crime Seminar, University of York WOLFE Workshop, University of Colorado Boulder, SEA Conference, McGill, CUNY Stone Center Seminar Series, Macalester, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis OIGI Seminar Series, NBER SI Labor Studies

2020     ASSA Annual Meeting, Yale Cowles Visitor, USC PIPE Workshop, University of Santa Barbara*, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar*, BLS*, IADB*, University of Copenhagen*, University of Minnesota*, University of Oregon*, LISER Seminar Luxembourg*, SOLE Berlin, USC Marshall brownbag, Seminar on LGBTQ+ Economics, Bank of Lithuania, American University, SEA, APPAM

2019     University of Warwick, EUR, Texas Economics of Crime Workshop, Statistics Norway, VATT, SOLE, University of Chicago and LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, UC Irvine, University of Wisconsin Madison IRP, WEAI, Bank of Italy/CEPR/IZA Annual Symposium in Labour Economics, CSU Fullerton, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Duke, Stanford, Purdue, CELS Conference (discussant), USC Junior Faculty Research day

2018     VATT Seminar (Helsinki), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Statistics Norway, LSE-NYU Political Economy Conference, Peking University, University of Rochester, ASU, LSU, Claremont Mckenna College, RAND, All-California Labor Economics Conference

2017     University of Namur CRED Workshop, IFAU, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Warsaw School of Economics and University of Warsaw, University of Helsinki Early Life and Human Capital Formation Workshop, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Advances in Empirical Labor Economics)

2016     U.S. Census Bureau, University of South Carolina, McGill, Indiana University, UCLA, USC, USC Marshall, IIES, LSE, Notre Dame, UVA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Federal Trade Commission, Institute for Fiscal Studies EDePo and EDSkills Human Capital Research Meeting

2015     IFAU Seminar Series 

2014     IGC Political Economy Group 

*Cancelled or rescheduled due to COVID

Other Employment 

2010-present  Board of Directors, MedPLUS Connect 

2013                 Research Assistant to Kareen Rozen 

2011-2012       Research Assistant to Costas Meghir 

2011-2012       Research Assistant to Fabian Lange 

2012-2013       Short Term Consultant, World Bank 

2009-2010       Executive Director and Co-Founder, MedPLUS Connect 

Referee Service 

Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, AER Insights, Journal of Development Economics, Quantitative Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economics of the Household, The Economic Journal, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Letters,  Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Literature,Review of Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and more

Citizenship: USA