Projects
Current projects are focused on the background check process, policing incentives, prosecutorial discretion, and inaccurate statistical discrimination in labor markets.
FORMER PROJECTS
Council of Economic Advisers (2014-16)
Lead/Co-Lead Junior Author:
Inequality in Early Childhood and Effective Public Policy Interventions (2016 Economic Report of the President, Chapter 4)
The Long-term Decline in Prime-age Male Labor Force Participation (June 2016) & accompanying voxEU article
Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change (July 2015)
Contributing Junior Author:
The Economics of Family-Friendly Workplace Policies (2015 Economic Report of the President, Chapter 4)
The Gender Pay Gap on the Anniversary of the Lily Ledbetter Pay Act (January 2016): worked with Martha and Sandy on this report and related presentations; conducted literature review and pulled from August 2015 report on Women in Business; led FC process
Employer-provided training analysis for NEC Upskilling report (April 2015)
Occuapational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers (July 2015): collected raw data on licensing burdens by state and visualized with ArcGIS; contributed to telework, distance learning, and criminal record sections; led graph creation and FC process
Gender Pay Gap: Recent Trends and Explanations (April 2015): helped with literature review and writing of sections on potential causes of the gender pay gap
Wellesley College (2014)
A Decade Later: An Evaluation of the Longer-Term Impacts of a Honduran Conditional Cash Transfer