I am a labor, health, and education economist and a lead research economist at the Research and Innovation for Social and Economic Inclusion Lab at Northwestern University. I am also a research affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Tulane University’s Murphy Institute.
Discrimination and identity
I study how names, social attitudes, and public policy affect discrimination and ethnic self-identification. My published work examines Hispanic surnames in education and labor markets and the relationship between racial attitudes and Hispanic identity.
Field experiments
My audit studies measure discrimination in mortgage lending and school admissions. The school-admissions project compares responses from traditional public, charter, and private schools to families who differ by race, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Health, education, and labor
My other projects study peer effects in adolescent mental health, firearm waiting periods and suicide, immigration enforcement, disability services, and workforce-development policy. I use causal inference methods, field experiments, and administrative data to answer these questions.