CV

• Dissertation: The Impact of Public Policy on Nonstandard Work Arrangements.
• Research: labor-market regulation and worker classification; benefits and nonstandard work; minimum wage, overtime, employer-provided health insurance, monopsony, and tax evasion.
• Skills: quantitative and econometric analysis; policy evaluation; interdisciplinary communication; project management.

• Help shape and prioritize EIG’s research pipeline by generating new ideas, assessing fit with strategic priorities, and tracking key economic, academic, and policy developments.
• Lead end-to-end research projects: frame questions, select data, design and defend identification strategies, run quantitative analysis, and write publication-ready outputs with institutional rigor.
• Serve as a public-facing representative of EIG by presenting findings to policymakers, researchers, and media and translating technical work for broad audiences.
• Support fundraising and external partnerships by cultivating relationships with funders, contractors, and vendors.
• Mentor and develop junior staff with hands-on support for coding, data best practices, quality norms, and team development.

• Economic research with large datasets; advanced statistical and spatial analysis.
• Translate empirical results into policy writing, data visualization, and stakeholder outreach.

• Applied empirical methods to EIG research on labor markets, place-based policy, and economic mobility.
• Supported report production, data engineering, and policy communication for public-facing publications.

• Empirical analyses of major U.S. social policies and reforms.
• Work on intergenerational poverty, material hardship, and employment impacts of the Child Tax Credit.

• Supported faculty transition to technology-enhanced learning.
• Conducted DEI and course design assessments; developed action plans informed by interviews and surveys.

• Primary instructor for a section of the core MPA microeconomics and public policy course.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• The Minimum Wage, Self-Employment, and the Online Gig Economy — Journal of Labor Economics (2023)
• No Evidence the Child Tax Credit Expansion Had an Effect on the Well-Being and Mental Health of Parents — Health Affairs (2022)
• Effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit on employment outcomes — Journal of Public Economics (2024)

Reports and working papers

• The American Worker Project: Toward a New Consensus (EIG, June 2024)
• The Great “Transfer”-mation (EIG, September 2024)
• The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Housing Supply (EIG, March 2025)
• How to end low-wage work forever: An 80-80 wage subsidy proposal (EIG, September 2025)

Agglomerations (selected short-form writing)

• How to end low-wage work forever, Part 1 (September 2025)
• How to end low-wage work forever, Part 2: the FAQ (December 2025)
• The jobs chart that really has us worried (December 2025)

• Implemented a rigorous, fully transparent, and replicable data and analysis pipeline for public-facing economic research, and built and trained staff workflows for GitHub collaboration, code review, documentation, and reproducibility best practices.

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• County-level analysis of the growth of government transfer income as a share of personal income since 1970.
• Data and replication code supporting EIG’s report and interactive.

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• Pi Alpha Alpha Doctoral Manuscript Award — recognizes outstanding student research, methodological rigor, and originality.
• NASPAA Staats Emerging Scholar — selected to present research at the NASPAA annual conference.

• Strategic advice on local legislation governing nonstandard work arrangements and the online gig economy.
• Consultation on COVID-19 impacts on local labor markets, independent contracting, and unemployment insurance.

• Co-developed the executive summary for an assessment of Utah’s SB 233 portable benefits law.
• Identified key implementation challenges and recommendations to strengthen incentives and legal clarity.

Television

• CBS MoneyWatch — “More than half of U.S. workers don’t have access to employer-sponsored retirement plan”

Podcasts

• Money with Katie (Morning Brew)
• The Ross Kaminsky Show
• Spotlight on Poverty & Opportunity
• Political Economy Forum Podcast (University of Washington)