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).

My research is in the economics of education and human capital, with a focus on Latin America and the United States. I want to study whether educational technology substitutes for or complements the skills learners already have. I am also interested in organizational capacity: how investing in the people who lead private and public agencies can amplify change throughout their institutions. Finally, I am interested in the scalability of programs and the heterogeneity behind their results: an average effect says little about who a program works for, and where, and that variation is what decides whether it should grow. My work is policy-oriented and relies on experimental and quasi-experimental methods with administrative data, in projects built with the governments and organizations that use the results. I am applying to PhD programs for Fall 2027 to continue this research.