Economist, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, 2021-present
“Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants,” with Francine Blau, Lawrence Kahn, Matthew Comey, Pamela Meyerhofer, and Alexander Willén. 2020. Review of Economics of the Household 18 (4): 907–958. (IPUMS Time Use Research Award, Published Research, 2021)
“Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients,” with Jordan Matsudaira. Journal of Labor Economics 39 (52): S413–S454.
“Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics (MOVS): Infrastructure Files and Public Use Data” with Maggie R. Jones, Adam Bee, Kendall Houghton, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Sonya R. Porter, Jonathan Rothbaum, and John Voorheis. Center for Economic Studies Working Paper CES-24-23. (associated interactive data tool, America Counts Story, data set)
“Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top? Evidence from College Transcript Records”, with Ariel J. Binder, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote. Center for Economic Studies Working Paper CES-23-61.
“The Gender Pay Gap and its Determinants Across the Human Capital Distribution,” with Ariel J. Binder, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote. Center for Economic Studies Working Paper CES-23-31. (associated America Counts story)
“The Demographics of the Recipients of the First Economic Impact Payment,” with Leah R. Clark, Adam J. Cole, Ben S. Meiselman, Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, Kevin Pierce, and John Voorheis. Center for Economic Studies Working Paper CES-23-24. (associated America Counts story)
“Supercompliers,” with Matthew Comey and Zhuan Pei, arXiv:2212.14105.
“Income and the Take-Up of Means Tested Programs,” with Kevin Rinz.
“The Income of Bachelor’s Degree Holders: Variation by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,” with Andrew Foote and Kendall Houghton.
“The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Parent and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Long Run Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments,” with Hilary Hoynes, Pauline Leung, Jordan Matsudaira, Cynthia Miller, Zhuan Pei, Kevin Rinz, and Mark van Dok.
“Municipal Debt: What Does It Buy and Who Benefits,” with Harvey Galper, Kim Rueben, and Richard Auxier. 2014. National Tax Journal 67 (4): 901-24.
“Evaluating Broad-Based Approaches for Limiting Tax Expenditures,” with Eric J. Toder and Joseph Rosenberg. 2013. National Tax Journal 66 (4): 807-32.
“New Perspectives on Homeownership Tax Incentives,” with Benjamin H. Harris and C. Eugene Steuerle. December 23, 2013. Tax Notes : 1315-32.
“The Benefits of the Mortgage Interest and Property Tax Deductions,” with Benjamin H. Harris. August 26, 2013. Tax Notes: 947.
Research Assistant, Professor Pauline Leung: Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Summer 2018
Research Assistant, Professor Jordan Matsudaira: Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Summer 2017-Spring 2018
Research Assistant, Professor Zhuan Pei: Summer 2019, Fall 2018
Research Assistant, Professor Francine Blau: Fall 2015-Spring 2017
Research Assistant, The Urban Institute, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center: 2012-2014
Teaching Assistant, Empirical Strategies for Policy Analysis (PhD course), Cornell University, Fall 2020
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Swarthmore College, Spring 2012
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, Swarthmore College, Fall 2011
2024: Association for Education Finance & Policy
2020: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference (poster)
Review of Economics and Statistics, Economics of Education Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Programming: Stata, SAS, SQL, \(\LaTeX\), VBA, Fortran; experience with R, Python, Matlab
Languages: English (native), Spanish (advanced), Mandarin (basic)
Citizenship: USA
Other: Special Sworn Status, U.S. Census Bureau (2017-present)