C.V.

PDF of full C.V. here. (Updated January 23, 2023)

Abbreviated C.V. (sans Research and Teaching)

Current Positions

• Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics and Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, November 2022-Present
• Executive Director, Cornell FSRDC, Cornell University Center for Social Sciences, July 2022-Present
• Research Fellow, IZA, 2021-Present

Other Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, July 2021-October 2022
• Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, 2015-2021
• Research Affiliate, IZA, 2016-2021
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 2019-2020
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Brandeis University, 2013-2015
• Postdoc Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012-2013

Education

• Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2012
• Carleton College, B.A. in Mathematics (with Distinction), summa cum laude, 2006

Grants, Honors and Awards

• Jain Family Institute - Brooks School Senior Fellow, 2023-2025
• PI, “Effects of Work and Financial Assistance Policies on Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from Welfare Reform Experiments,” William T. Grant Foundation, with Hilary Hoynes (co-PI), Pauline Leung (co-PI), and Jordan Matsudaira (co-PI), $544,312, 2021-2025
• Co-PI, “The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Parent and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Long Run Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments,” Laura and John Arnold Foundation, with Hilary Hoynes (PI), Pauline Leung (co-PI), and Jordan Matsudaira (co-PI), $348,605, 2020-2023
• PI, “Graphical Presentation in Regression Discontinuity Designs,” Cornell University Institute of Social Sciences Small Grant, with Christina Korting (co-PI) and Yi Shen (co-PI), $10,000, 2019-2021
• Institute of Social Sciences Faculty Fellow, Cornell University, 2018-2019
• Co-PI, “The Effects of Employment Incentives and Cash Transfers on Parent and Child Outcomes: Long-Term Evidence from the Welfare Reform Experiments,” Russell Sage Foundation Research Award, with Hilary Hoynes (PI) and Jordan Matsudaira (co-PI), $129,677, 2017-2019
• Co-PI, “Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Welfare Reform,” Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality Faculty Research Grant, with Jordan Matsudaira (PI) and Pauline Leung (co-PI), $60,777, 2017-2018
• Albert Rees Dissertation Prize, Princeton University, 2017
• PI, “Further Education during Unemployment,” Cornell University Institute of Social Sciences Small Grant, with Pauline Leung (PI), $7,500, 2017-2019
• Theodore and Jane Norman Award, Brandeis University, 2013-2014
• Richard A. Lester Fellowship for Industrial Relations, Princeton University, 2009-2010

Seminar/Conference Presentations

• 2025: Binghamton University (scheduled)
• 2024: Stata Economics Virtual Symposium (scheduled)
• 2023: ASSA, Brown University, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Centennial Symposium
• 2022: Syracuse University
• 2021: SWUFE, SOLE, IAAE, Cornell-Penn State Econometrics/IO Conference, AASLE
• 2020: Jinan IESR, Online Causal Inference Seminar (invited discussant; seminar video recording here, and discussion starts here), APPAM
• 2019: Cornell University, UC Irvine, Econometric Society Asia/China/European Meetings, IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Conference, NBER Summer Institute, Princeton University QSS Colloquium, APPAM, Princeton Labor-Econometrics Seminar, AASLE
• 2018: CIRANO-CIREQ Applied Economics Conference, UC Davis, IZA Workshop: Economics of Education, APPAM, NTA conference, Central European University, Northwestern University
• 2017: Jinan University IESR Labor Conference, EALE meeting, University of Zurich, Duke University, CUFE CHLR International Symposium, CMStatistics Conference
• 2016: University at Buffalo, Cornell University, Advances in Econometrics Conference (U Michigan), Central University of Finance and Economics, Tsinghua University, Hanyang University, Econometric Society China Meeting, Sichuan University, Cornell-Penn State Econometrics/IO Conference
• 2015: Cornell University, SOLE/EALE meeting, Econometric Society World Congress
• 2014: University of Michigan, Brandeis University, George Washington University
• 2013: SOLE Meeting, Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting
• 2012: APPAM Research Conference, Brandeis University, Brigham Young University, Brown University, Mathematica Policy Research, Queen’s University School of Policy Studies (Canada), Swarthmore College, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Western Michigan University
• 2011: Princeton University, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Peer Review

• Advances in Econometrics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Economic Review: Insights, American Political Science Review, Econometrics Journal, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Empirical Eocnomics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Causal Inference, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Labour Economics, National Science Foundation, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal

Service

• Member of executive committee, NYRDC, 2022-present
• Member of Economics Ph.D. placement committee, Cornell University, 2020, 2022
• Member of Dyson MS/PhD curriculum review committee, Cornell University, 2022-23
• Member of Economics recruiting committee, Cornell University, 2022-23
• Member of PAM Ph.D. admissions committee, Cornell University, 2022
• Member of Economics Ph.D. admissions committee, Cornell University, 2017-2019, 2021-2022
• Member of faculty recruiting committee, Cornell University, 2015, 2022
• Co-organizer of method mini-course, Cornell University, 2016-2020
• Co-organizer of PAM seminar series, Cornell University, 2017-2019
• Co-organizer of economics seminar series, Brandeis University, 2014-2015
• Social co-chair (2007-08) and Treasurer (2008-09), Graduate Economics Club, Princeton University