About me

I’m an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I study how new policies, tools, and technologies impact people, labor markets, and cities. Much of my research involves collecting novel data through field experiments, surveys, and new measurement approaches.

I received my PhD in economics from MIT in 2017 and my BA from Yale in 2008. Before graduate school, I worked at Innovations for Poverty Action on projects in Peru, the Philippines, Malawi, and Uganda and at The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. I graduated high school from Kalamazoo Loy Norrix and the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center.

I now live in Illinois with my wife and three children.