Research Experiences
01
Stanford RegLab
In 2022 I began a research fellowship under Professors Daniel Ho and Jacob Goldin, where I worked on, among other things, developing and applying tools for estimating racial disparities under incomplete information. In the figure on the right (pulled from our paper) we use racial imputation outputs to estimate Internal Revenue Service audit rates for different subgroups of Black and non-Black taxpayers.
02
Migrant workers hired through the H-2A program are especially vulnerable to rights violations. Utilizing data from the United States Department of Labor and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, a group of researchers and I employed machine learning models and made recommendations for how limited resources can be leveraged by the government to detect these rights violations.
03
Race and Student Debt
Sociologist Jason Houle performed a series of interviews with student debtors to help uncover the relationship between race and student debt. I then helped clean the raw interview data, put it in a more usable format, and create tables of descriptive statistics using Stata to assist the development of his Harvard Education Press book.
04
Expert Witness Research Assistant
In 2020, the Trump Campaign sued Governor Steve Bullock for expanding access to Vote By Mail in Montana amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Michael Herron was called on as an expert witness by the state of Montana, and I was his research assistant. I reviewed court documents and searched databases of prominent Montanan newspapers to determine how much (or, as it turns out, how little) voter fraud had occurred in Montana in the past.
05
Asymmetric Partisan Voter Turnout Games
During the winter of my sophomore year, I took a term off from classes to pursue an independent research project. Contributing to the literature on the apparent irrationality of voting, I proposed a game-theoretic model of voting where agents consider both the instrumental and expressive values of their vote. Working alongside Professor Feng Fu, I wrote up a manuscript of my findings that was subsequently published in Dynamic Games and Applications.
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