PhD Student in Economics · Brown University
I am a PhD student in economics at Brown University, working in labor economics, applied econometrics, and applied macroeconomics. My current research studies how local labor markets respond to large plant closures and layoffs.
Before graduate school, I spent two years as a senior research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. I graduated from Harvard College in 2022 with Highest Honors in Economics.
Uses WARN notices of closures with externally verified causes to estimate the persistence, multipliers, and resident versus commuter incidence of local job loss.
Estimates the U.S. density wage premium in ACS microdata (2005–2023), adjusting for worker sorting, and tests whether remote work accelerated its decline.
With John Coglianese. FEDS Notes, 2024.
We estimate each worker’s unemployment risk from CPS microdata using cross-validated gradient boosting, and show that these risk estimates made in advance line up with the unemployment patterns that follow.
With Seth Murray and Brendan Price. FEDS Notes, 2023.
We combine Lightcast job postings, QCEW, and CPS microdata to show that the shortfall in urban leisure and hospitality employment reflects weak labor demand in the era of remote work.
Instructor, ECON 2020: Computational Methods for Economists
The required first-year PhD course covering R, data analysis, and reproducible workflows. I am redesigning half of the course around AI-assisted research, with an emphasis on verifying results and keeping them reproducible.
Teaching Assistant, Econ 181: Exploratory Data Analysis with R
Co-founder, 2025–present
Hivewire is an LLM-powered news platform. I built the LLM- and embedding-driven pipeline that clusters thousands of daily news articles into deduplicated stories.
Open data project, 2026
I built a register of about 92,700 source-linked WARN layoff notices from 48 state agencies (1989–present), with a daily scraping pipeline, a public site, and a seasonally adjusted layoff index based on the dynamic factor model of Krolikowski and Lunsford (2024).
PhD in Economics (expected 2029); MA in Economics (2026)
Fields: labor economics, applied econometrics, and applied macroeconomics. Trainee at the Population Studies and Training Center.
Senior Research Assistant, Labor Markets Section
I conducted quantitative research on U.S. labor-market dynamics using large-scale microdata and macro time series, contributed analysis to the pre-FOMC Nonfinancial Briefing, and maintained data pipelines for the Board’s internal forecasts.
BA in Economics, minor in Government
Graduated with Highest Honors in Economics and received the Harris Prize for the best senior honors thesis.