Job Market Paper: "Mental Illness Discrimination"- Designed, ran and analyzed online experiments to estimate causal effect of learning about a coworker's depression/anxiety on preference for coworker, productivityCo-author on "Learning in the Household"- Managed team of research assistants to design and implement experiments in Chennai, India- Worked with team of coauthors to analyze the data and write the paper- Result: academic paper currently under revision at EconometricaCo-author on "Poverty, Depression, and Anxiety: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms" (published in Science)- Worked with team of coauthors from economics and medicine to review and synthesize evidence of a causal relationship between poverty and mental health, including an original Bayesian meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials- Result: academic paper published in Science magazineCo-author on "Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter Expansion"- Used synthetic control and IV estimators to estimate causal effect of charter school expansion on traditional public schools in Massachusetts- Result: academic paper under revision at Journal of Human Resources

- Taught 6 courses in microeconomics, econometrics, behavioral, and labor economics. - Independently prepared and delivered lectures, and wrote problem sets and exams. My student evaluations averaged 6.3 out of 7 (departmental average: 5.5).

Used regression discontinuity design and nonparametric regression to analyze the effects of affirmative action in selective US high schools.