Research
My research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, labour economics, and development economics. I study how institutions, social norms, safety, migration, and technology shape labour-market behaviour, gender inequality, human capital, and long-run economic outcomes.
Working Papers
Assessing the impact of crime on gender disparities in labour market outcomes
With: Sholeh Maani
Status: Under review at Journal of Population Economics
Summary: This paper examines how crime and safety affect gender disparities in labour-market outcomes. The project studies whether unsafe environments and crime exposure shape women’s and men’s labour supply differently, with implications for gender inequality and economic development.
Materials: Access paper
The missing right-hand of U: how stigma works to deter women’s work
With: Debasis Bandyopadhyay
Status: Working paper
Summary: This paper studies how stigma and social norms can prevent the expected rebound in women’s labour supply during economic development. It develops a macroeconomic framework to examine why rising education and structural transformation may be insufficient when gendered constraints remain binding.
Materials: Draft available upon request.
Migration and cultural assimilation: theory and evidence from the age of mass migration
With: Chanelle Duley, Prasanna Gai, and Joshua Greenwood
Status: Working paper
Summary: This paper studies migrant assimilation during the age of mass migration. Combining theory and historical evidence, the project examines how cultural distance, origin-country conditions, and institutional environments shaped assimilation outcomes.
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Shipping Lanes and Inflation-at-Risk: Hub Shocks, Belief Coordination, and Optimal Monetary Policy
With: Prasanna Gai and Andrew G. Haldane
Status: Working paper
Summary: This paper embeds a hub-chain production network in a two-period New Keynesian model with dispersed beliefs to study how global hub disruptions affect inflation-at-risk. It shows that network structures can amplify the right tail of inflation outcomes by coordinating firms’ beliefs about shock persistence, with implications for monetary policy and structural resilience.
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Work in Progress
What they could have said: counterfactual press conference response by the Federal Reserve Chairs through the lens of LLM
With: Eric Tong
Summary: This project uses large language models to study counterfactual communication in Federal Reserve press conferences. It asks how alternative responses by Federal Reserve Chairs might have changed the informational content, tone, and policy interpretation of press-conference exchanges.
Materials: Draft in preparation.
Teaching and Learning Publication
Reflect - revise - reveal: a learning-journal journey in experiential education
With: David Ratliff
Status: In ASCILITE Conference Proceedings
Materials: Access paper
Research Interests
- Crime, safety perceptions, and labour supply
- Gender inequality and women’s work
- Social norms, stigma, and economic development
- Migration and cultural assimilation
- Supply-chain networks, inflation-at-risk, and monetary policy
- AI and large language models in economic analysis