About Me

I am a Research Analyst at the Education & Crime Urban Labs at the University of Chicago. Currently, my work focuses on tutoring and policing: I work on multi-site randomized controlled trials of high-dosage tutoring in U.S. public schools and of leadership training for police commanders, with an emphasis on experimental design and causal inference across sites. Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant at Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and as a Research Analyst at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

I am an applied microeconomist working on development, the economics of education and labor markets. My question is how human capital is formed over the life course and who benefits from it, and I want to study three parts of it. First, whether educational technology complements or substitutes for the skills learners and educators already have. Second, how training leaders, as an investment in human capital, changes the public and private organizations they manage and, through them, the people those organizations serve. Third, the scalability of programs and the heterogeneity behind their results: which learners a program’s design fits best, whether that holds as it grows, and how the gaps that remain carry into further education and the labor market.