I am the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor in the Department of Economics at SMU, a research fellow at IZA, a member of the HCEO Global Working Group, and senior co-editor of Advances in Econometrics. My research focuses on microeconometric methods, with applications spanning primarily labor, environmental, and health economics. I teach courses in labor economics and econometrics.
Research Areas
- Microeconometrics.
- Labor Markets.
- Environment.
- Food Security.
- Health.
Current Projects
“Fixed Effects and Causal Inference,” with Marc Bellemare.
“A Tale of Two Bankruptcies: Geographic Differences in Bankruptcy Chapter Choice,” with Nate Pattison.
“Partisan Mortality Cycles” with Travis Whitacre.
“Estimation of Food Security Dynamics in the Presence of Measurement Error,” with Ian McDonough.
“Is It Ever OK to Ignore Classical Measurement Error in a Covariate?” with Hao Dong.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson