I'm a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Wabash College and an education and labor economist studying how the timing and amount of schooling shape degree outcomes and early-career earnings. My research focuses mainly on quasi-experimental variation from a schooling reform that compressed instruction time into fewer years of schooling. I show that compression improves overall graduation rates at the expense of normalizing late graduation. I also investigate downstream wage effects introduced by the reform.

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2026), where I also completed an M.A. in Quantitative Economics & Econometrics (2020) and a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics from Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen (2019).

My teaching has been recognized with UWM's Teaching Fellow Award and with the department's William Holahan Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Research Interests: Education & Labor Economics, Economic Inequality, & Applied Microeconomics

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Last updated: Aug 2026