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Education

• Ph.D. Economics, Cornell University, Expected May 2021
• M.A. Economics, Cornell University, 2017
• B.A., Economics (with high honors), minors in Public Policy and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 2012

Academic Visits

Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, Visiting Student, 2019-2020

Fields

Public Economics, Labor Economics

Job Market Paper

“Income and the Take-Up of Means Tested Programs,” with Kevin Rinz. (Job Market Paper)

Publications

“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. Review of Economics of the Household. (forthcoming).

Working Papers

“Pell Grants and Student Success: Evidence from the Universe of Federal Aid Recipients,” with Jordan Matsudaira. September 2020. (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Labor Economics).

Works in Progress

“Do Tax Refunds Create Short Term Stimulus? Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit”

“The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health”

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

“Municipal Debt: What Does It Buy and Who Benefits,” with Harvey Galper, Kim Rueben, and Richard Auxier. National Tax Journal 67, no. 4 (December 2014): 901-24.

“Evaluating Broad-Based Approaches for Limiting Tax Expenditures,” with Eric J. Toder and Joseph Rosenberg. National Tax Journal 66, no. 4 (December 2013): 807-32.

“New Perspectives on Homeownership Tax Incentives,” with Benjamin H. Harris and C. Eugene Steuerle. Tax Notes (December 23, 2013): 1315-32.

“The Benefits of the Mortgage Interest and Property Tax Deductions,” with Benjamin H. Harris. Tax Notes (August 26, 2013): 947.

Research and Work Experience

Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Summer 2018: Research Assistant, Professor Pauline Leung, Cornell University

Fall 2019-Spring 2020: Research Assistant, Professor Jordan Matsudaira, Columbia University

Summer 2019, Fall 2018: Research Assistant, Professor Zhuan Pei, Cornell University

Summer 2017-Spring 2018: Research Assistant, Professor Jordan Matsudaira, Cornell University

Fall 2015-Spring 2017: Research Assistant, Professor Francine Blau, Cornell Universtiy

2012-2014: Research Assistant, The Urban Institute, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Teaching Experience

Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant, PAM 6090 Empirical Strategies for Policy Analysis (PhD course), Professor Douglas Miller, Cornell University

Spring 2012: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Professor Mark Kuperberg, Swarthmore College

Fall 2011: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, Professor Ellen Magenheim, Swarthmore College

Service and Professional Activities

• Subcommittee Member, Policy Analysis & Management Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Subcommittee, 2020
• Volunteer income tax preparer, United Way of Greater Mercer County, 2020
• Mentor, Policy Analysis & Management Graduate Mentoring Program, Cornell University, 2017-2019
• Mentor, Economics Graduate Student Mentoring Program, Cornell University, 2016-2018
• Treasurer, Graduate Student Association for Economics, Cornell University, 2016-2017
• Treasurer, Graduate Students in Policy Analysis & Management, Cornell University, 2015-2016
• Field Member for Economics, Graduate Student and Professional Assembly, Cornell University, 2015-2016
• Volunteer income tax preparer, DC EITC Campaign, 2013-2014

Honors and Fellowships

• Ernest Liu ‘64, Ta-Chung and Ya-Chao Liu Memorial Fellowship, Cornell University, 2017-2018
• Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2014-2015
• Adams Prize in Economics, Swarthmore College, 2012
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2012
• Robert M. Netting Undergraduate Student Paper Prize, American Anthropological Association, 2011

Other

Programming: Stata, SAS, \(\LaTeX\), VBA, Fortran; experience with R, Python, Matlab
Languages: English (native), Spanish (proficient), Mandarin (basic)
Citizenship: USA
Other: Special Sworn Status, U.S. Census Bureau (2017-present)