CV
Academic Positions
2023 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
2017- Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
2021 (Fall) Visiting Scholar, OIGI, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2024- Affiliated Researcher, IZA
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
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, Grants, and Awards:
2024 Russel Sage Foundation Grant
2024 Academy of Finland Grant
2024 Golden Apple Teaching Award (voted as favorite professor in the MBV program)
2023 JEEA Excellence in refereeing award
2023 Marshall Teaching Excellence Award (monetary award for exceptional teaching)
2023 Golden Apple Teaching Award (voted as favorite professor in the MBA core)
2023 USC Lusk Research Center Grant
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)
2018 Academy of Finland Grant
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, Forthcoming, and Conditionally Accepted Papers:
“Dynamics of Abusive Relationships” with Abi Adams, Kristiina Huttunen, and Ning Zhang, The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 139, Issue 4
“Financial Crime and Punishment” with Kristiina Huttunen, Martti Kaila, and David Macdonald, Conditionally Accepted at AEJ: Economic Policy
“You Can't Force Me Into Caregiving: Paternity Leave and the Child Penalty”, with Martin Andresen, Conditionally accepted at Economic Journal
“Violence Against Women at Work” with Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, and Ning Zhang, 2024 The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 139, Issue 2
"The Impacts of an Early Career Shock on Intergenerational Mobility", with Martti Kaila and Krista Riukula, 2025 Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 43, Number 4
"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
“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)
Working Papers:
"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, submitted
"The Economic Costs of Rape" with Abi Adams, Kristiina Huttunen, and Ning Zhang
"Who's Hurt the Most? Graduating Into a Recession and Transmission of Inequality Across Generations" with Martti Kaila and Jerry Montonen
“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:
2024 (including scheduled) ASSA, University of Calgary, University of South Carolina, Stanford (guest lecture), Oxford, Royal Holloway, UC Riverside, SFU, UC Santa Barbara, SOLE, Boston College, NBER Labor Studies Spring Meeting, University of Copenhagen, Rockwool Foundation, Bocconi, NBER SI Personnel, NBER SI Political Economy, NBER SI Crime, University of Glasgow, ITAM Business, Stanford SITE Gender, Boston University, University of Pittsburg
2023 University of Calgary, 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 (co-author presented), 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
I write >30 reports per year, primarily at: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review Insights, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, AEJ: Applied, AEJ: EP, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Development Economics, along with a few others
Teaching Experience
ECON 1055, Managing People, Undergraduate (Georgetown University); Spring 2025
ECON 4961, Senior Thesis, Undergraduate (Georgetown University); Spring 2025
GSBA 511, Microeconomics for Management, MBA Core, Overall evaluation 4.75/5; Summer 2021, 2022, 2023
GSBA 556 Microeconomics for Management Veterans Master’s Program, Fall 2023, Overall evaluation 3.92/4, Fall 2023
Econ 351, Microeconomics for Business, Undergraduate core course, Overall evaluation 4.77/5; Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020
Service
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Georgetown University)
PhD Admissions Committee (Georgetown University)
Co-organizer, Conference on the Economics of Violence and Harassment Against Women at Stanford
Co-organizer, Conference on Economics of Crime at Helsinki
Co-organizer, USC Marshall Applied Seminar
Co-organizer, USC Marshall brownbag
Graduate Women in Business Faculty Adviser
USC MBA Women’s Forum
Recruiting committee
SOLE Organizing committee
Teaching excellence selection committee
PhD and Postdoc Advising and first placements*
Thomas Ash (Post-doc UCLA)
Martti Kaila (Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow)
David Macdonald (Assistant Professor, UBC Okanagan)
Amy Mahler (Rand)
Ning Zhang (Assistant Professor, CUHK)
Zhihan Liu (Current)
Jerry Montonen (Current)
Ludovica Mosillo (Current)
*Excludes students where I only served as an external committee member without significant advising time
Citizenship: USA