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 applying traditional causal inference tools to study the effects of policies such as merit-based free community college, I apply and develop tools from computer vision and natural language processing (including generative AI) to convert text and images into data for economic analysis. This approach allows me to examine questions such as how regulatory and market forces shape 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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