I’m an Assistant Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago where I also completed the Econometrics and Labor Economics fields in the Economics Department.

I study the economics of education, with a focus on how educational materials, policies, and institutions shape human capital and cultural transmission. In addition to using traditional causal inference tools to study policies such as merit-based free community college, I apply and develop tools from computer vision and natural language processing (including generative AI) to examine questions like the political economy of textbook content in public and religious private schools.

I have held multiple fellowships, including being a 2023 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow, a Discovery Doctoral Fellow at the Data Science Institute and a Committee on Education Fellow at the University of Chicago. After earning my PhD, I held a Post-Doc position at the Inclusive Economy Lab.

   

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