R&R at AEJ: Applied
This paper shows that an expansion of public health insurance to children from low-income families reduced the probability of those children going to prison as adults.
PhD, Economics
I conduct research in the fields of public, health, and environmental economics. In Fall of 2023, I'll join the University of Houston as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment between the Economics Department and the Hobby School of Public Affairs. In the coming academic year, I'll be a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Aging and Health. Here are a few things I’ll be working on.
This paper shows that an expansion of public health insurance to children from low-income families reduced the probability of those children going to prison as adults.
Life expectancy in the United States varies widely by geography: The gap between the top and bottom-ranking counties is over twenty years. These disparities, however, are based on where people die. This paper provides the first sub-state estimates of life expectancy based on where the deceased were born.
This paper assesses the impact of in utero and early childhood wildfire exposure on lifelong outcomes, including longevity, disability, human capital accumulation, and economic achievement in mid-to-late adulthood.