Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Economic Development, Labor Economics

Expertise: Economics

My research examines the potential of labor markets to enable people to work their way out of poverty.

His research focuses on labor and development economics. His research leverages high-resolution and unique microdatasets that allow him to examine the potential of labor markets to enable people to work their way out of poverty. To date, he was worked on minimum wages, job creation, labor market frictions, occupational segregation, job quality, and other topics.

Network Program Areas:

  • Labor and Development
  • Evaluation of Labor Market Programs
  • Labor in Post-Transition and Emerging Economies

Research Interests:

  • incomplete labor markets
  • job creation and destruction
  • job quality
  • job stability
  • labor and development
  • minimum wages
  • monopsony
  • occupational segregation
  • program and policy evaluation
  • trade and labor
  • wage-productivity gap
Communities
Law, Finance, Economics
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University, Economics, 2012
MA, Cornell University, Economics, 2010
MS, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Development Studies, 2006
BS, Taylor University, Computer Science, 1999