About

I am a PhD candidate in Health Policy (Health Economics Concentration) at the University of California, Berkeley. My research spans health economics, global health, and population health. Using experimental and quasi-experimental methods, I study the social, environmental, and behavioral determinants of health and human capital across the life course. My work has been published in the Journal of Health Economics. I hold an MS in Applied Economics from Cornell University and a BS in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

My job market paper, “What Do Measures of Decision-Making Ability Tell Us About Preventive Health Behavior? Evidence from Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination,” shows that different decision-making abilities predict who falls behind on familiar and new vaccines: choice consistency predicts the decline in flu vaccination over time, and quantitative ability predicts who got a COVID-19 vaccine earlier as eligibility expanded. My other work examines the cognitive costs of air pollution in Kenya, the long-run effects of wartime bombing in Vietnam, and whether nutrition can mitigate the developmental effects of prenatal pollution exposure.

I am a Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), where I work with Professor Edward Miguel.