Research

• Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students [PDF] [SIEPR Policy Brief] (with Menaka Hampole and Francesca Truffa) Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Recipient of the Susan Schmidt Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy, 2019, Unicredit Foundation 11th Best Paper Award on Gender Economics, 2021, Outstanding Paper Award - 2nd Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, 2022, Carlo Dell'Aringa Young Economist Prize, 2023

• Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks [PDF] [VoxDev] [Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative] [IGC Blog] (with Edward Asiedu, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, and Francesca Truffa) 

Registered in the AEA RCT Registry, unique identifying number: AEARCTR-0006439 

• The Spillover Effects of Maternity Leave Extensions on Unemployment Insurance [New version soon!] (with Francesca Truffa)

• Undergraduate Gender Diversity and the Direction of Scientific Research [PDF] (with Francesca Truffa)

Forthcoming, American Economic Review

Recipient of the Susan Schmidt Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy, 2019

• Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship: Business Networks and Collaborations in Ghana. (with Edward Asiedu, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, and Francesca Truffa)

Forthcoming, American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings

• Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US. (with Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder). January 2021. Journal of Public Economics, Volume 193. ICPSR Data Repository 

• The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health. (with Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhashkar Mazumder and Sarah Miller). December 2020. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

• The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States: A Latent Variables Analysis. (with Timothy Halliday and Bhashkar Mazumder). January 2020. Health Economics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 1-15

• The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Wellbeing. (with Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhashkar Mazumder and Sarah Miller). July 2018. Journal of Public Economics, Volume 163, Pages 99-112

• Pension Caregiver Credits and the Gender Gap in Old-Age Income (with Fabio Blasutto and Francesca Truffa)

• Motherhood and the Gender Gap in Self-Employment (with Mery Ferrando, Teodora Tsankova, and Francesca Truffa)

• Diversifying Innovation: How Student Debt Affects Diversity in Entrepreneurship (with Menaka Hampole and Francesca Truffa) 

• Addressing Racial Disparities in Medical Education and Science: The Role of the Civil Rights Movement (with Thomas Helgerman and Francesca Truffa) 

• How Female Representation Changes Science: Evidence from College Coeducation (with Drew Hendrickson and Francesca Truffa) 

• The Effects of Academic Calendar on Faculty Outcomes (with Valerie Bostwick, Stefanie Fischer, and Francesca Truffa)

• Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls' Math Education (with Francesca Truffa)

Registered in the AEA RCT Registry, unique identifying number: AEARCTR-0003054 [Data collection completed]