About Me

I am a fifth-year Economics Ph.D. Candidate at Texas A&M University. I use both experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study gender and crime in the context of higher education. 

My job market paper, "The Under-Reporting of Sexual Assault: An Experiment on Victims, Perpetrators, and Social Judgment," investigates the role of social judgment in the decision to disclose both sexual assault victimization and perpetration.

The central questions in my research are motivated by the objective of understanding sexual assault incidence, the decision to report sexual assault, and how to alleviate the barriers to doing so. Ultimately, my work advances our understanding of college sexual assault, barriers to reporting, and the subsequent decision (not) to report. More broadly, my work focuses on understanding an individual’s decision to report or disclose sensitive information, integrating behavioral insights into the measurement of sensitive topics by emphasizing how expectations of social judgment and anonymity shape disclosure decisions.

I also study other related topics in campus safety and higher education, including gun violence on college campuses, gender diversity in economics, and the labor market returns to college grades.  

Prior to my Ph.D., I graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Chancellor's Scholar in May 2022.