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Ph.D. Candidate, Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (on the 2025-2026 Job Market)
I'm 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 which 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.
Prior to my Ph.D., I earned an M.A. in Quantitative Economics & Econometrics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2020) and a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics at 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: Dec 2025
Education
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, (expected May 2026)
M.A. Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 2020
B.Sc. in Business Administration & Economics, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany, 2019
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
Richard Perlman Prize in Labor Economics, UWM, 2025. Awarded the Best Labor Economics Paper By a Graduate Student
"In a Hurry to Graduate? The Effects of Compressed Schooling on Degree Completion."
Teaching Fellow Award, UWM, 2024. University-Wide Prize for Outstanding Teaching
William Holahan Award for Outstanding Teaching, UWM, 2024. Department Prize for the Best Teaching By a Graduate Student
I-Corps Research Grant, NSF, 2022. Workshop Participant
Chancellor's Graduate Award in Economics, UWM, 2020, 2024 and 2025.
PROMOS Scholarship, DAAD, 2020. Stipend Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service to Support Study-Related Stays Abroad in Countries Outside the Erasmus+ Program.
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