My dissertation develops novel economic theory and empirical tools based on foundational insights to understand persistent inequality, epistemic injustice, and policy design under uncertainty. I introduce dynamic models of labor market discrimination, educational segregation, and oligopolistic firm behavior that incorporate Bayesian learning, Knightian uncertainty, and endogenous belief formation.
Using both formal proofs and causal inference methods, I show how women, disabled, Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ demographic subgroups experience systemically embedded demand side labor market disparities even at high levels of achievement, and how equity considerate policies can reverse these dynamics and redress biophysical harms. This work advances public economics, economic theories of unequal distribution and exchange, and the ethical foundations of policy design, offering rigorous frameworks for building just and cooperative economies.
A Non-Utilitarian Black Feminist Theory of Learning Under Epistemic Animus (Submission to Educational Researcher)
Williamsonian Persistent Epistemic Wage Exchange and Bargaining Gaps Under Animus
(Job Market Paper, Submission to QJE)
Geometric Estimation of Persistent Epistemic Inequality Driven Darity-Holder Double Wage Differentials (Complete, Pending Submission)
Lewis-Swinton-Williams Realism: Knightian Uncertainty, Hamptonian Worker Solidarity, and the Dynamics of Bayesian Oligopoly Economies (Awarded 2025 IAFFE Rhonda Williams Prize, Submission to Feminist Economics)
Ethical Geometry and a Celestial Mechanics Spatial Model of the Ally Leader in Local Economies (Public Allies research project)
Delawares Desegregation, School Choice, and Dynamic Complementarity Under Disequilibrium and Animus (Submission to Education Finance and Policy)
Andrews Learning-by-Doing Persistent Animus, AI Displacement, and Mass Incarceration: Dynamics of Dreadful Social Arithmetic (Submission to The Review of Black Political Economy)