Curriculum Vitae
Employment
Economist - U.S. Census Bureau
Center for Enterprise Dissemination - Disclosure Avoidance, 2018-present
Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division, 2016-2018
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Purdue University (2016)
Dissertation: Essays on Labor Economics and Panel Data Analysis
Committee: Mohitosh Kejriwal (co-chair), Kevin Mumford (co-char), Justin Tobias, Jack Barron
M.S. Economics, Purdue University (2013)
B.S. Economics (minor: Mathematics), Middle Tennessee State University (2011)
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Privacy
Research
Publications:
"A Penny Synthesized is a Penny Earned? An Exploratory Analysis of Accuracy in the SIPP Synthetic Beta" (with Jordan Stanley) Harvard Data Science Review forthcoming
"The Efficacy of Ability Proxies for Estimating the Returns to Schooling: A Factor Model-Based Evaluation" (with Mohitosh Kejriwal, Linh Nguyen, and Xiaoxiao Li) Journal of Applied Econometrics (2024) 39:1 3-21
"Minimum Wages, Retirement Timing, and Labor Supply" (with Matthew Hampton) Journal of Public Economics (2023) 224
"Synthesizing Familial Linkages for Privacy in Microdata" (with Gary Benedetto) Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (2023) 13:1
"Multidimensional Skills and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence from an Interactive Fixed Effects Approach and a Linked Survey-Administrative Dataset" (with Mohitosh Kejriwal and Xiaoxiao Li) Journal of Applied Econometrics (2020) 35:5, 548-566
"High School Value-Added and College Outcomes" Education Economics (2020) 28:1, 67-95
"Stuttering and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States" (with Hope Gerlach, Anu Subramanian, and Patricia Zebrowski) Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2018) 61:7, 1649-1663
"The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment: A Factor Model Approach" Economic Inquiry (2017) 55:4, 1712-1737
"Salary Caps and Competitive Balance in Professional Sports Leagues" (with Mark F. Owens) Journal for Economic Educators (2011) 11:2, 46-56
Working Papers:
"Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Total Survey Error" (with Thor Watson)
Technical Reports and Resting Papers
"Automated Synthetic Data Validation: Applying Noise Injection for Disclosure Avoidance" (with Saimun Habib, Bianica Pires, Gary Benedetto, Rolando Rodriguez, Jordan Awan, Jordan Stanley, Evan Totty, Giuseppe Germinario, and Rich Stevenson)
"A Task-Based Approach to Constructing Occupational Categories with Implications for Empirical Research in Labor Economics" (with Gary Benedetto and Julia Manzella) [resting paper]
"The Creation and Use of the SIPP Synthetic Beta v7.0" (with Gary Benedetto and Jordan Stanley)
Conference and Invited Seminar Presentations
NBER Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research (2024)
National Academies of Science/Committee for National Statistics (2022)
American Economics Association Annual Meeting (2021)
Joint Statistical Meetings (2019)
Society of Government Economists Annual Conference (2019)
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference (2018)
National Stuttering Association Research Symposium (2017)
Southern Economic Association Annual Conference (2016)
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa (2016)
American Economic Association Annual Meeting (2016)
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (2015)
Joint Statistical Meetings (2015)
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley (2015)
Awards, Certificates, and Fellowships
Project Management Citation, George Washington University (2018)
Economic Inquiry Best Paper Award (2017)
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship (2014-2015)
Robert W. Johnson Award for Distinguished Research Proposal (2014)
Certificate for Distinguished Teaching [4.4/5 or higher average on selected questions for student evaluations] (Fall 2013, Summer 2014)
Certificate for Outstanding Teaching [4.0-4.39/5] (Summer 2013)
Certificate for Distinguished Recitation Teaching [4.4/5 or higher] (Spring 2012)
Teaching Experience
Macroeconomics, online (course instructor) -- Summer 2014
Macroeconomics (course instructor) -- Summer 2013, Fall 2014
Principles of Economics (recitation instructor) -- Spring 2012
Probability and Statistics, Ph.D. (teaching assistant) -- Fall 2015
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (teaching assistant) -- Spring 2013, Spring 2014
Game Theory (teaching assistant) -- Fall 2012
Behavioral Economics (teaching assistant) -- Fall 2011
Refereeing
Advances in Econometrics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Econometric Reviews, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, European Economic Review, Harvard Data Science Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Quantitative Economics
References
Available upon request.