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

• The State of the Gender Pay Gap (June 2016)

• Long-term Benefits of SNAP (December 2015)

• Worker Voice in a Time of Rising Inequality (October 2015)

• Expanding Opportunities for Women in Business (August 2015)

• Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change (July 2015)

• Economics of Early Childhood Investments (December 2014)

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

• 15 Economic Facts About Millennials (October 2014)

Wellesley College (2014)

A Decade Later: An Evaluation of the Longer-Term Impacts of a Honduran Conditional Cash Transfer