Publications
"Mental health symptoms among U.S. College Students before, early, and late into the Covid-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis" (with Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Lu Huang, and Krista Perreria), Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 76, Issue 2, February 2025 . Link
Working Papers
"Household preferences for school bus transportation: Survey Evidence from Wake County, North Carolina"
"Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd: Non-Linear Preferences for Crowding at Public Beaches" (with Andrew Earle, Frank Lupi, and Roger von Haefen) Revise and resubmit at Marine Resource Economics
Works in Progress
"The State of School Busing in Research: An Interdisciplinary Review" (with Alexander J. Holt)
"School choice with indifferent student preferences" (with Umut Dur)
Prior Work
"What the Frack? An Analysis of the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on the Public Education System In North Dakota" (Undergraduate Honors Thesis)
Abstract: The technological innovations in the late 2000’s enabled once non-viable oil and natural gas deposits to suddenly become lucrative through a new technique: hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking. The Bakken Formation, one of the largest oil and gas formations in the United States, lies underneath North Dakota. As a result of drilling improvements, oil and gas companies began creating operations in North Dakota to access the Formation, generating jobs and enticing relocation to the area. The resulting local economic boom presents a unique opportunity to study the effects of fracking booms on the public school system. By exploiting the homogeneity of North Dakota, I employ a difference in differences model to estimate the causal impact exposure to fracking has on the public school system at a county level via property tax revenues, enrollments, number of full time equivalent teachers, instructional salaries, and outlay for construction and instructional equipment. I find that for counties with high exposure to fracking there is an average increase in property tax revenues by 29.5%, an increase in primary enrollment by 25.44 students, and an average decrease of 3.665 primary full time equivalent teachers. Counties with low exposure to fracking see a 26.1% increase in property tax revenue, and though the coefficients are similar, there is no significant effect on primary enrollment or teacher numbers.