I am the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor at SMU, the Department Chair in the Department of Economics, 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
“On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator,” with Marc Bellemare.
“A Tale of Two Bankruptcies: Geographic Differences in Bankruptcy Chapter Choice,” with Nate Pattison.
“Partisan Mortality Cycles” with Travis Whitacre.
“Embrace the Noise: It Is OK to Ignore Measurement Error in a Covariate, Sometimes” with Hao Dong.
“Identification of State Dependence with Misclassified Variables with an Application to Food Insecurity,” with Timothy Halliday & Ian McDonough
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson