Research Experiences
01
Stanford's RegLab
In 2022 I began a pre-doctoral research fellowship under Professors Daniel Ho and Jacob Goldin, where I've been working on developing and applying tools for estimating racial disparities under incomplete information. On the right we combine racial imputation outputs with a novel ecological inference method to estimate the national disparity in Internal Revenue Service audit rates.
02
Migrant workers 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 Dartmouth researchers and I use machine learning models to determine how limited resources can be optimized 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 cleaned the raw interview data, put it in a more usable format, and created tables of descriptive statistics in Stata to assist the development of his Harvard Education Press book in progress.
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 has occurred in Montana in the past.
05
Asymmetric Partisan Voter Turnout Games
During 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 value 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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