About

I am an assistant professor of public policy at George Washington University's Trachtenburg School. I will be visiting the University of Copenhagen's Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality during AY25-26.

My applied microeconomics research focuses on criminal justice, education, and military personnel policy. My work has recently been published in Nature, the Journal of Human Capital, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

My criminal justice research focuses on the effects of parole supervision (e.g., early release, parole conditions, and officer effects), prison programing (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy and violence prevention programs), policing (e.g., gang takedowns, community policing, focused deterrence, and officer arrest decisions), and crime prevention through environmental design (e.g., streetlighting and art initiatives). My education research focuses on the effects of high school curricula (e.g., career and technical education and general education) and high school tutoring programs (e.g., two-on-one peer tutoring and education technology platforms). Finally, my military personnel research investigates the effects of bonus compensation, career pathways, and retirement savings on career success.

I was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) and Analyst at USAFA’s Office of Labor and Economic Analysis. Prior to that I worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Penn State’s Criminal Justice Research Center and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and as a research director with the University of Chicago's Crime & Education Lab in New York City. I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and a BS in economics & political science from the University of Michigan.