About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and an affiliated researcher at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability.
During 2024–2025, I served as a Staff Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where my portfolio spanned climate, energy, and industrial policy. Prior to starting my Ph.D., I worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as a Research Assistant at the University of Chicago Urban Labs.
I hold an M.A. in public policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Georgia.
Research
My primary area of study is energy and environmental economics. Much of my work intersects with and draws from household finance, industrial organization, insurance economics, and urban and real estate economics. I am broadly interested in how environmental and energy-related risks are priced, regulated, and distributed across households and markets.
Working Papers
- Energy Costs and Household Financial Distress: Evidence from the Mortgage Market
- Insurance, Endogenous Exposure, and the Welfare Cost of Disaster Risk
- News and the Pricing of Environmental Risk
- A History of Market Concentration in the U.S. Electricity Sector
- Modeling Need in Federal Energy Assistance
Works in Progress
- The Price Effects of Electric Utility Mergers Under Cost-of-Service Regulation
- The Distributional Impact of Property Tax Assessment Caps
- Housing Precarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Selected Policy Publications
- “Electric Utility Mergers and Acquisitions: Economic Evidence, Regulatory Institutions, and Consumer Protections.”
- “LIHEAP under heat: Assessing policy reforms and funding needs to address state energy burdens.”
- “State-level heterogeneity in the price elasticity for electricity in the U.S. residential market.”
- “Counting the cost: Quantifying the rising impacts of heat-related productivity losses in the United States.”
- The 2025 Economic Report of the President, Chapter 5: “Achieving a Net Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions Economy in the United States.”
- “Flooding and finances: Hurricane Harvey's impact on consumer credit.”