About

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and my primary research fields are corporate finance, industrial organization, and political economy. I study the causes and consequences of firms engaging with social, political, and environmental issues. I also have related research on regulation, polarization, and discrimination.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Economics
• Development economics
• Medicine
• Demographic economics
• Law
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Demography
• Virology

Selected publications

• Consuming Values

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• What explains temporal and geographic variation in the early US COVID-19 pandemic?

  Review of Economic Design · 2024-12-18 · 5 citations

  articleCorresponding
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• Consuming Values

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 4 citations

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• The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 7 citations

  articleOpen access
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• Does the Community Reinvestment Act Improve Consumers’ Access to Credit?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Does the Community Reinvestment Act Improve Consumers’ Access to Credit?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2023-03-01 · 5 citations

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  We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries.Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and income among African Americans with darker and lighter perceived skin tones.To disentangle the drivers of these gaps, we identify all 36,329 families in which enumerators assigned samegender siblings different Black/Mulatto classifications.Relative to sisters coded as Mulatto, sisters coded as Black had lower educational attainment, were less likely to marry, and had lowerearning, less-educated husbands.These patterns are consistent with more severe contemporaneous discrimination against African-American women with darker perceived skin tones.In contrast, we find similar educational attainment, marital outcomes, and incomes among differently-classified brothers.Men perceived as African Americans of any skin tone faced similar contemporaneous discrimination, consistent with the "one-drop" racial classification rule that grouped together individuals with any known Black ancestry.Lower incomes for African-American men perceived as having darker skin tone in the general population were driven by differences in opportunities and resources that varied across families, likely reflecting the impacts of historical or family-level discrimination

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• The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01

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• Affective Polarization Did Not Increase During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Quarterly Journal of Political Science · 2022-07-26 · 7 citations

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  We document trends in affective polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic. In our main measure, affective polarization is relatively flat between July 2019 and February 2020, then falls significantly around the onset of the pandemic. Three of five other data sources display a similar downward trend, with two of five data sources showing no significant change. A survey experiment shows that priming respondents to think about the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduces affective polarization.

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• Journalist Ideology and the Production of News: Evidence from Movers

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 4 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Hunt Allcott

  10 shared

• Levi Boxell

  8 shared

• Matthew Gentzkow

  7 shared

• Matthew Plosser

  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  4 shared

• David Y. Yang

  3 shared

• Billy Ferguson

  3 shared

• Benny Goldman

  Cornell University

  3 shared

• Jack Glaser

  University of Chicago

  2 shared

Education

• PhD Candidate, Economics

  Stanford University

• BS in Mathematics with Honors, BA in Economics, and BS in Statistics

  University of Chicago

Awards & honors

• HEC Paris Top Finance Graduate Award