CV

Download my CV (pdf, updated September 2020)

Please be sure to check my research page for the most up-to-date drafts of papers.

Abbreviated CV:

Employment:

Associate Professor, University of Memphis, September 2020-

Assistant Professor, University of Memphis, 2014-2020

Staff Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-2011

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 2014

M.Phil., Economics, Yale University, 2011

M.A., Economics, Yale University, 2009

B.A., Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2007

Publications:

“Labor Market Returns to College Major Specificity” (with Margaret Leighton), Forthcoming, European Economic Review

“Where the Girls Are: Examining and Explaining the Gender Gap in the Nursing Major”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67(3), p.322-343, July 2020

“Are Changes of Major Major Changes? The Roles of Grades, Gender, and Preferences in College Major Switching?” (with Carmen Astorne-Figari), Economics of Education Review, 70, p. 75-93, June 2019

“Drop Out, Switch Majors, or Persist?: The Contrasting Gender Gaps” (with Carmen Astorne-Figari), Economics Letters, 164, p. 82-85, March 2018

“The Gender Gap in College Major: Revisiting the Role of Pre-College Factors”, Labour Economics 44, p. 69-88, January 2017

“Pre-Market Skills, Occupational Choice, and Career Progression”, Journal of Human Resources, 52(1), p. 187-246, Winter 2017

"How Bad is Occupational Coding Error? A Task-Based Approach", Economics Letters, 141, p. 166-168, April 2016

“Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success”, (with Joseph G. Altonji and Lisa B. Kahn), Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1), p. S361-S401, January 2016

“Wages, Hours, and the School to Work Transition: The Consequences of Leaving School in a Recession for Less-Educated Men”, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 16(1), p. 97-124, January 2016

“Trends in Earnings Differentials Across College Majors and the Changing Task Composition of Jobs” (with Joseph G. Altonji and Lisa B. Kahn), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 104(5), p. 387-393, May 2014

Working Papers:

“Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline”

“STEM Occupations and the Gender Gap: What Can We Learn From Job Tasks?”

"Stigma and Selection into Social Programs: Evidence from a Job Training Recruitment Experiment" (with Adam Osman)

“The Consequences of Promotion and Relegation in European Soccer Leagues: A Regression Discontinuity Approach”

Work In Progress:

"Skills and Vacancies in the Egyptian Labor Market" (with Adam Osman and Andrew Weaver)

“Connections, Referrals, and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from an Egyptian Establishment Survey” (with Adam Osman and Andrew Weaver)

"A Randomized Trial of Job Training in Egypt" (with Adam Osman)

"Manager Success and Job Tasks" (with Benjamin Friedrich)

"Worker Mismatch and the Specificity of Human Capital" (with Margaret Leighton)

Courses taught:

Quantitative Economic Analysis (Graduate/Undergraduate)

Labor Economics (Graduate)

Labor and Public Economics (Graduate)

Labor Economics (Undergraduate)

Public Economics (Undergraduate)

Economics of Poverty and Discrimination (Undergraduate)

Principles of Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)