Bio

I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and received BA degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2016. I then spent one year as a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley's Department of Economics. After five years on the faculty of the London School of Economics , I joined the University of Maryland Economics Department in the Fall of 2022.

My research interests are primarily in behavioral welfare economics and public economics. One strand of my recent work considers optimal policymaking with behavioral frictions, and another strand focuses on tax evasion by wealthy Americans. I have done research on some other questions in applied microeconomics, including pension design, minimum wages, behavioral finance, and information search.

Apart from professional activities, I enjoy all kinds of music. I co-founded the Unversity of Michigan’s GradTONES choir, and I play the trumpet and piano. Sometimes I cycle recreationally.