I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and an External Affiliate of the Department of Economics at Georgia State University, where I received my Ph.D. in 2022.

My research examines how decentralized policy implementation shapes outcomes. I focus on the local actors and governments that determine whether broader policy goals are achieved or undermined.

Interests
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics
Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, 2022

    Georgia State University

Research

The Role of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Fertility Decisions
Working paper June 2026
Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) seek to reduce abortion incidence by providing counseling to pregnant women. Using a 30-year county-level panel from North and South Carolina, I estimate that CPC presence reduces abortion rates by 18 percent, with the largest effects among teenagers and young women.
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The Role of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Fertility Decisions
Solar Adoption by Mandates
with Stefano Carattini, Wade Davis, Anton Heimerdinger
CESifo Working Paper No. 12359 September 2025
Solar mandates are spreading rapidly. Combining an engineering model of private payoffs with adoption data from California new construction, we find that most buildings forgo solar despite positive payoffs, and that San Francisco’s and California’s mandates increased solar adoption considerably.
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Municipal Building Codes and the Adoption of Solar Photovoltaics
with Stefano Carattini, Alexander Gordan, Andreas Löschel
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 124, 102937 March 2024
Municipal solar policies aimed at historical preservation slow the adoption of solar photovoltaics. Using a survey of German municipalities and administrative data on all solar installations, we find that municipalities restricting solar installations in their building codes have 10.4 percent less solar capacity.
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Impact Evaluation of the Lucy Calkins Units of Study Program
with Tim R. Sass
Georgia Policy Labs, Georgia State University October 2021
The Lucy Calkins Programs in reading and writing have, at most, very small average effects on student achievement in ELA relative to the “business as usual” approach of using other reading and writing programs.
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The Effect of Passing a CTE Technical Assessment on College Enrollment
with Daniel Kreisman, Jesus Villero
Georgia Policy Labs, Georgia State University August 2021
Does passing a CTE technical assessment affect students’ probability of attending college?
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School-Based Social-Emotional Learning Programs and K-12 Academic Achievement
with Tim R. Sass
Georgia Policy Labs, Georgia State University August 2020
A review of the causal evidence on universal school-based social-emotional learning programs. The most rigorous studies find positive average effects on achievement, with substantial variation across studies and stronger effects in elementary schools.
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