Welcome!

Hi there! 

I am an applied microeconomist (in training) completing my PhD at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

My projects investigate how knowledge and innovation affect people and government decision making. I am fascinated by nineteenth and early twentieth-century American history, so much of my work leverages data and institutional settings from this period. 

I also develop theoretically motivated (but intuitive and easy to use!) text classification tools. 

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Check out my research here

mckelligott@uchicago.edu

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