Employment

Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College, July 2018-present 

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, August 2018

M.A. Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, 2015

B.S. Economics and International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009 

Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Financial Frictions, Entrepreneurship

Publications

"Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights," with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 142-172, July 2021.

Working Papers

"Same Shock Separate Channels: House Prices and Firm Performance in the Great Recession"

"Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion”, NBER WP no. 30620 with Cindy Cunningham, Matthew Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, Rachel L. Nesbit, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle and Zoltan Wolf

"Productivity Dispersion and Structural Change in Retail Trade" CES working paper no. 23-60 with Dominic Smith, Michael D. Giandrea, Cheryl Grim, Jay Stewart, and Zoltan Wolf

"Collaborative Micro-productivity Project: Establishment-Level Productivity Dataset, 1972-2020" CES working paper no. 23-65 with Cheryl Grim, Rachel L. Nesbit, Cody Tuttle, and Zoltan Wolf

Work in Progress

"Financial Markets, Productivity Dispersion, and Misallocation"

"Allocating Misallocation: Decomposing Measures of Aggregate Allocative Efficiency," with John Haltiwanger and Zoltan Wolf

Teaching Experience

Macroeconomics, Amherst College, Spring 2023—present

Advanced Macroeconomics, Amherst College, Spring 2020—present

Economics of Entrepreneurship, Amherst College, Fall 2018—present

Introduction to Economics, Amherst College, Fall 2018—present

Principles of Microeconomics, University of Maryland, Summer 2014

Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis (Teaching Assistant), University of Maryland, Spring 2013 

Principles of Microeconomics (Teaching Assistant), University of Maryland, Fall 2012 

Other Positions

Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, Fall 2018—Present

Pathways Intern, U.S. Census Bureau, Fall 2014—Fall 2018

Research Assistant, Prof. John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, Fall 2013—Summer 2014 

Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, September 2009—June 2012 

Grants and Awards

Graduate School Summer Fellowship Award, University of Maryland, Summer 2015 

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland, September 2017 

Graduate Assistantship, University of Maryland, Fall 2012—Spring 2014

Faculty Honors/Dean’s List, Georgia Institute of Technology (eight semesters), 2005-2009 

Conference and Seminar Presentations

2023: Liberal Arts Macro Conference 2023, Williams College, Midwest Macro Meetings Fall 2023

2022: Liberal Arts Macro Conference 2022, Midwest Macro Meetings Fall 2022

2021: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference 2021

2019: Federal Statistical Research Data Center Conference 2019

2018: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Amherst College

2017: U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, Federal Statistical Research Data Center Conference, Spring Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation