Resume
Experience
Upcoming:
Fall 2023
Economic analysis on the Core Data Science team.
Research Scientist Intern
Meta
with Deeksha Sinha
Menlo Park, California
Summer 2023
Economist Intern
Amazon
with Mingyu Chen
and Xin Tang
Bellevue, Washington
Estimation of the economic value of engagement with Alexa using recent advances in the two-way fixed effect difference-in-differences literature. Involves productionizing code and managing large (100+million obs) datasets using SQL.
Summer 2022
Economist Intern
Amazon
with Dara Lee Luca
and Jess Pinnock
Conducted privileged and confidential research in employee relations. Used Stata and R to perform instrumental variables, k nearest neighbor, and causal forest analysis. Presented findings to Vice President of Employee Relations and four Directors, which led to a revision in Amazon policy.
Education
2019 - 2024
PhD Economics
University of California,
San Diego
Anticipated Completion:
December 2023 or March 2024
Fields: Labor, Environmental, and Behavioral/Experimental Economics
La Jolla, California
2015-2019
BS Economics,
BS Mathematics,
Minor in Music Performance
Arizona State University
Barrett, the Honors College
Tempe, Arizona
Teaching & Research Assistance
2019 - Present
Teaching Assistant
University of California,
San Diego
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Fall '21, '22: Graduate Environmental and Regulatory Economics, Graduate Economies of the Pacific Rim, with Joshua Graff Zivin
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Spring '21, '23: Energy Economics, with Richard Carson
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Winter '21, '23: Economics of Ocean Resources, with Dale Squires
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Fall '20: Econometrics B, with Mun Pyung O
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Grader: Economics of Discrimination, Economics of the Environment, Economics of Ocean Resources
2020 - 2022
Graduate Student Researcher (RA)
University of California,
San Diego
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With Joshua Graff Zivin, Robert Conn, and Peter Cowhey:
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"The Impact of Philanthropy on Science, Technology, and Innovation"
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With Judson Boomhower:
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Effectiveness of building codes on wildfire damage
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Geographic variation in wildfire fighting costs
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Historical records of oil and gas well ownership and stranded assets
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"When do Environmental Externalities Have Electoral Consequences? Evidence from Fracking"
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Professional skillset
Strong Stata and R, familiar with SQL, Python and Matlab
Software: Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS, QGIS, Git, Linux, LaTeX, Microsoft Office
Causal inference techniques: instrumental variables (IV), (synthetic) difference-in-differences (DiD), regression discontinuity (RD), spatial RD, randomized control trials (RCT), propensity score and nearest neighbor matching, causal forest, double machine learning, surrogate models