Education Background
Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Irvine 2016
M.A. Social Sciences: Mathematical Behavioral Sciences University of California, Irvine 2014
B.S. Economics, summa cum laude & departmental honors, Towson University 2010
Experience
Professional Experience
- Referee - B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Eastern Economic Journal, Economics of Governance, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Public Choice, Social Choice and Welfare, Social Science Journal,
- Faculty Advisor, Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honors Society (2021-present),
- Graduate Studies Committee - West Virginia University Economics Department (2017-2018),
- Graduate student liaison - UC Irvine Economics Department,
- Mentor for incoming graduate students - UC Irvine Economics Department,
- Coordinator - Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) Friday Seminar Series (20142016); Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Annual IMBS Graduate Student Conference (2014-2016).
Awards
- Summer Grant, NET Institute (2016),
- Jean-Claude Falmagne Dissertation Award (2016),
- A. Kimball Romney Award for outstanding graduate paper: “Public and Club Goods When Private Costs Have Negative Externalities” (2016),
- Sheen T. Kassouf Fellowship for best graduate student, UC Irvine (2015-2016),
- Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UC Irvine (2016),
- Outstanding TA Award, UC Irvine (2014),
- IMBS Service Award (2014, 2015, 2016),
- Merit Fellowship in Economics, UC Irvine (Spring, 2015),
- UC Irvine Summer Research Fellowship (2014, 2015),
- Merit Fellowship in Economics, UC Irvine: (2011-2016),
- Social Science Tuition Fellowship, UC Irvine (2011),
- Provost’s Scholarship Towson University (2006-2010),
- Departmental Honors, Economics, Towson University (2010).
Publications
- (accepted) Incentives for the Over-Provision of Public Goods. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
- (2018) Going Along or Going Independent? A Dynamic Analysis of Nonprofit Franchising (with Jiawei Chen). B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 18(2).
(2017) Education, Identity, and Community: Lessons from Jewish Emancipation (with Jean-Paul Carvalho and Mark Koyama). Public Choice, 171(1), pp. 119-143. - (2015) Competition between open source and proprietary software: strategies for survival. Journal of Management Information Systems, 32(3), pp. 268-295.
Presentations
- 2020 Louisiana State University, Clarkson University.
- 2019 U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice.
- 2018 University of Central Arkansas, 16th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Christopher Newport University.
- 2017 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 15th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference.
- 2016 European Association for Research in Industrial Economics 43rd Annual Conference, Western Economic Association 91st Annual Conference, IMBS Seminar, UC Irvine.
- 2015 UC Irvine: Theory, History, and Development, IMBS and Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society (Chapman University) Workshop on the Economics of Religion and Culture, Towson University.
- 2014 UC Irvine: Theory, History, and Development, Twelfth Annual IMBS Graduate Student Conference, Tenth Annual California Graduate Student Conference: Center for the Study of Democracy, IMBS Seminar, UC Irvine (2x).
- 2013 IMBS Seminar, UC Irvine.