My research combines quantitative macroeconomic models with rich micro-data to study labor markets, firm dynamics, and household financial behavior. I am interested in worker mobility and wage growth, the interaction between labor markets and policy, and how households navigate inflation and uncertainty. Across my projects, I combine structural modeling with data to understand how individuals, firms, and markets respond to economic shocks and policy.

In my Job Market Paper, I study the role of labor force growth in the decline in U.S. labor mobility since the 1980s. I develop a general equilibrium model of firm dynamics and on-the-job search in which slower labor force growth reduces firm entry, ages the firm distribution, and shrinks the supply of high-wage job openings. Calibrated to the early 1980s U.S. economy, the model generates more than 60% of the observed decline in employer-to-employer (EE) transitions and has important implications for wage growth. A counterfactual exercise shows that halting immigration since the 1980s would have led to a 20% larger decline in EE transitions.

Other research experience includes a PhD Dissertation Fellowship at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and participation in the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Post-Doc Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

You can see my CV and Research Statement.