Lolo Hotshots

Developed a research project with a faculty mentor examining the relationship between the net worth of House of Representative incumbents and measures of electoral success. Created a unique data set featuring campaign finance data from the Federal Election Committee and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Used STATA to create linear and logistic regression models to estimate the effects of net worth on electoral success. Presented my findings to a panel of academic and industry experts.

I work closely with individual students in courses such as economics and statistics throughout the semester. In addition, I also work in group settings tutoring open house sessions in economics and statistics.

Assist a Federal Reserve Board economist in conducting research on measures of economic output. Handle large data sets of time series vintages. Replicate macroeconomic papers published in top economics journals such as AEJ and RED. Perform multivariate time series forecasting in MATLAB, Stata, R, RATS, GAUSS, and Eviews.

Worked with a team of interns and social workers to develop a model for sustainable development in socioeconomically marginalized communities through micro health insurance. Collected data through field research and interviews with micro insurance program participants, and analyzed data using Excel. Produced a report analyzing the effects of providing affordable health programs on stabilizing economic development. Found that affordable health services are an important element in achieving stability, and that micro insurance is an effective and efficient way of allocating health resources to communities. Our results were presented to a panel of industry experts, and continue to be used by Parvati Swayamrojgar to demonstrate the importance of their work.