I am an Economic Advisor and Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. My research spans urban, environmental, and development economics. I completed my PhD in 2017 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was advised by faculty in both the Department of Economics and the Bren School. While I was in Santa Barbara, I raced wa’a.

Before graduate school, I worked for an energy efficiency consulting firm in Austin, TX. During my undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where I majored in Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and Economics, I produced documentaries about social issues in Thailand and Paraguay. Once upon a time, I spent two years at UNT in Denton, TX, thinking I wanted to study music. Before that, I delivered pizza and gassed up boats.

New Developments

• Aug ‘26 - Interested in using QSMs, especially to evaluate transportation infrastructure? Check my expanded review for a special issue of RSUE on Urban Economics and Transport.
• Aug ‘26 - Program for our conference-in-a-conference, Junior Spatial at the SEA, is up (co-organizer Simon Fuchs designed the nifty website).
• Jun ‘26 - LLMs are good, but not perfect, at digitizing historical tabular data. Check out our simple revised paper using historical vehicle registration data (and on arXiv).
• Feb ‘26 - Updated draft studying driving restrictions and teen school and work outcomes with Valerie Bostwick.
• Aug ‘25 - I’m teaching a PhD class at Penn (Wharton) on QSMs for Urban Economics in the fall; description and syllabus here.

Links for Posterity

Junior Spatial at the SEA (2021-26) program archives are here.

The Online Urban Economics Seminar in Spring 2020 was a predecessor to Online Spatial and Urban Seminar (OSUS).

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