I am a post-doctoral fellow at Tulane University’s Department of Economics and Murphy Institute. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston in 2023. My labor economics research focuses on discrimination, identity, immigration, and mental health. My primary topics of interest are:
Discrimination against minorities and ethnic identity
I compared the children of inter-ethnic couples to quantify labor market discrimination against people with Hispanic-sounding last names.
I examined how state-level variation in bias influences Hispanics’ decisions to identify with, or not identify, their ethnic minority status.
Quantify discrimination using audit field experiments.
In two working papers, I study discrimination using audit field experiments
In one audit, we quantify discrimination in access to the mortgage market against same-sex couples and racial minorities
In another audit, we study discrimination in access to education with an emphasis on differences between traditional charter, private, and charter schools against children that are LGBTQI+, racial minorities, with behavioral issues, with IEP status
Mental Health
- In other research, I explore the impact of peer mental health on individual mental health outcomes, both short-term and long-term, as well as the influence of gun control policy variations on suicide rates.