Applied Microeconomist | Experimental Economics, Matching, and Market Design

I study how observable signals and rankings shape search and matching in markets. My work asks when multidimensional preferences can be represented by a one-dimensional score—and when that compression fails to preserve behavioral trade-offs, predict equilibrium sorting, or support counterfactual analysis.

My current paper, When Rankings Fail: A Diagnostic Framework with Evidence from Experimental Trade-Offs and Matching Outcomes, develops a framework for testing whether rankings identified in one environment retain their meaning when transported to another. The empirical application connects experimentally identified trade-offs in online dating search to observed equilibrium marriage matching.

Across projects, I combine randomized field experiments, large-scale behavioral data from online platforms, and household survey data to identify preference structures and trace how they map into partner choice, market sorting, and household inequality.

I am also developing a research agenda on pair-specific compatibility. This work asks how randomized interactions and high-dimensional behavioral measures can distinguish environments in which compatibility can be represented by a scalar score from those requiring a genuinely multidimensional structure.

My research has appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Economics Letters.

Research Fields

Experimental Economics; Applied Microeconomics; Matching and Market Design; Family Economics; Digital Platforms and Information

Current Position

Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University
August 2026–May 2027

Research Visits and Collaborations

• Visitor, hosted by Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago, 2026

• Guest researcher, hosted by Yan Chen, University of Michigan School of Information, under a Covered Visitor arrangement, 2026–2027

Selected Invited Talks, 2026

• Math+Econ+Code Masterclass, hosted by Alfred Galichon

• Michigan State University Economics Brownbag

Selected Conference Presentations, 2026

• Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Denver, May 2026

• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Emory University, June 2026

• 12th Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Conference, University of Macau, June 2026

• Econometric Society Asia Meeting, HKU Business School, June 2026

• Economic Science Association World Meeting, Los Angeles, July 2026