Curriculum Vitae
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Contact Information
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Phone: (917) 854-2749
Fax: (858) 534-7040
Email: credpath@ucsd.edu
Personal Website: https://credpath.github.io/
UCSD Website: https://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~credpath/
Placement Director Jim Andreoni (858) 952-6183 andreoni@ucsd.edu
Placement Coodinator Andrew Flores (858) 534-1058 aflores@ucsd.edu
Education
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
PhD Economics - 2023 (expected)
CPhil Economics - 2021
MA Economics - 2019
Fordham University
New York, NY
BSc in Mathematics and, with Honors, in Economics summa cum laude - 2017
References
| Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Julie Cullen | jbcullen@ucsd.edu | (858) 822-2056 |
| Tom Vogl | tvgol@ucsd.edu | (858) 534-4553 |
| David Arnold | daarnold@ucsd.edu | (760) 415-0418 |
Fields of Interest
Labor Economics, Law & Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Relevant Positions Held
Fellow in Economics, Harvard University, 2021 - 2023
Research Assistant, Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies, 2020
Job Market Paper
“Spousal Visas and Couple Formation: Evidence from the End of the Defense Of Marriage Act”
Abstract:
Policy can impact partner choice and match quality. Spousal visa policy permits non-residents to marry citizens, arguably an assimilation capstone. I ask how this policy affects couple rates, marriage rates, and assortative mating by citizenship and birth country. Without immigration policy variation, I identify the effect of spousal visa access by exploiting a change in the federal government's definition of spouse. When the Supreme Court ended the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor, same-sex couples gained access to spousal visas for the first time. I estimate the effect of this policy change for mixed-citizenship same-sex couples, accounting for aggregate changes in other same-sex and mixed-citizenship couples, using a triple difference design. Spousal visa access causes a 36% increase in coupling rates and a 72% increase in marriage rates. Transfer benefits, health insurance, roommates, moving, fraud, or state-level heterogeneity do not explain the results. Informal calculations suggest that 1.5 million people currently have partners, directly thanks to spousal visa policy.Working Papers
“Officer Language and Suspect Race: A Text Analysis of Police Reports” (with Romaine Campbell)
Abstract:
We ask if police officers' use of adjectives and adverbs systematically differs by suspect race, if officers with more race-predictive language have different 911 call dispatch outcomes in Black compared with White neighborhoods, and if race-predictive language relates to other officer characteristics. We leverage a novel data set containing police report text. We identify race-predictive language using an elastic net with word counts, then use predicted race to construct an officer-level measure of race-predictive language. We find evidence that officers with greater race-predictive language are more likely to assist and less likely to arrest in Black relative to White neighborhoods.Works in Progress
“Marriage Legalization, Assortative Mating, and Match Surplus”
Abstract:
Marriage is a social phenomenon. Marriage is also a legal contract. Does access to the legal marriage contract affect assortative mating or the surplus generated by matches? If so, marriage policy favors the creation of some couples over others. I answer this question using variation in state law. Previously states barred same-sex couples from the legal marriage contract. I calibrate a model (Ciscato, Gousse, Galichon JPE 2020) that quantifies the relative extent of assortative mating and total matching surplus across marriage markets defined by state, year, and couple type: same-sex and different-sex. I then estimate how same-sex marriage legalization affects these quantities, using a staggered diff-in-diff design.“Body-Worn Cameras and Police Stops” (with Romaine Campbell)
Abstract:
We study the effects of body-worn cameras on officer interactions in a police department that was not an early adopter of body-worn cameras and was institutionally unwilling to adopt them with a randomized control trial (RCT). We hypothesize that this sizeable urban police department may better reflect an average department than early adopters or departments willing to implement an RCT. We compare dispatches made during daylight hours to those made at night before and after the rollout of body-worn cameras. We find that officers use less force during self-dispatched calls and make fewer self-dispatches after the rollout. We do not find changes in officer use of force for 911 call dispatches.Publications
“Risk Aversion, Offsetting Community Effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an Indoor Political Rally” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 63, 133–167 (2021) (with Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia)
Abstract:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deem large indoor gatherings without social distancing the “highest risk” activity for COVID-19 contagion. On June 20, 2020, President Donald J. Trump held his first mass campaign rally following the US coronavirus outbreak at the indoor Bank of Oklahoma arena. In the weeks following the event, numerous high-profile national news outlets reported that the Trump rally was “more than likely” the cause of a coronavirus surge in Tulsa County based on time series data. This study is the first to rigorously explore the impacts of this event on social distancing and COVID-19 spread. First, using data from SafeGraph Inc, we show that while non-resident visits to census block groups hosting the Trump event grew by approximately 25 percent, there was no decline in net stay-at-home behavior in Tulsa County, reflecting important offsetting behavioral effects. Then, using data on COVID-19 cases from the CDC and a synthetic control design, we find little evidence that COVID-19 grew more rapidly in Tulsa County, its border counties, or in the state of Oklahoma than each's estimated counterfactual during the five-week post-treatment period we observe. Difference-in-differences estimates further provide no evidence that COVID-19 rates grew faster in counties that drew relatively larger shares of residents to the event. We conclude that offsetting risk-related behavioral responses to the rally—including voluntary closures of restaurants and bars in downtown Tulsa, increases in stay-at-home behavior, displacement of usual activities of weekend inflows, and smaller-than-expected crowd attendance—may be important mechanisms.Teaching Experience
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Instructor of Record
| Course | Title | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Summer 2022 |
| ECON 3 | Principles of Macroeconomics | Summer 2021 |
Teaching Assistant
| Course | Title | Professor | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECON 172B | Operations Research | Newhouse | Spring 2022 |
| ECON 120C | Econometrics | Wüthrich | Winter 2022 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Fall 2021 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Spring 2021 |
| ECON 172B | Operations Research | Berg | Winter 2021 |
| ECON 171 | Decision Under Uncertainty | Newhouse | Fall 2020 |
| ECON 3 | Principles of Macroeconomics | Howden | Summer 2020 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Winter 2020 |
| ECON 172A | Operations Research | Newhouse | Fall 2019 |
| ECON 110A | Macroeconomics | Rondina | Spring 2019 |
| ECON 172A | Operations Research | Newhouse | Winter 2019 |
| ECON 120A | Econometrics | Candido | Fall 2018 |
Reader
| Course | Title | Professor | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECON 120A | Econometrics | Tocoian | Fall 2022 |
| ECON 178 | Economics & Business Forecasting | O | Spring 2018 |
| ECON 172A | Operations Research | Newhouse | Winter 2018 |
| ECON 171 | Decisions Under Uncertainty | Newhouse | Fall 2017 |
Grants
| Institution | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Travel and Research Grant - $400 | UCSD Econ | Spring 2022 |
| Travel and Research Grant - $255 | UCSD Econ | Winter 2022 |
| Travel and Research Grant - $500 | UCSD Econ | Fall 2021 |
Honors & Awards
| Institution | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| TA Excellence Award | UCSD Econ | 2020-2021 |
| Graduate Student Research Fellowship - $4 000 | UCSD Econ | 2019 |
| Graduate Student Research Fellowship - $4 000 | UCSD Econ | 2018 |
| Regents Fellowship - $13 000 | UCSD | 2017-2018 |
| Charles A O’Neil Award | Fordham University | 2017 |
| Dean’s List | Fordham University | 2015-2017 |
Professional Activities
Seminar Presentations
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt Empirical and Applied Microeconomics (VEAM) | Nashville | 2022 |
| UCSD Applied Lunch (x2) | San Diego | |
| UCSD Applied Lunch (x3) | San Diego | 2021 |
| CSQIEP Seminar Series | virtual | 2020 |
| UCSD Applied Lunch | San Diego |
Conference Presentations
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| WEAI Annual Meeting | Portland | 2022 |
| PAA Annual Meeting (poster) | virtual | |
| Economic Demography Workshop | virtual | |
| AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting | virtual | |
| Economics Graduate Student Conference | St Louis | 2021 |
| All-California Labor Economics Conference (poster) | virtual |
Conference Discussant
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| WEAI Annual Meeting | Portland | 2022 |
Referee Service
Review of Economics of the Household, Scientific Reports
Other Service
Organizer, 3rd Year Applied Group Seminar, 2019-2020
Member, Search Committee for the Dean of Rady School of Management, 2019
Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Association, 2018-2019
Other Information
Citizenship: United States, Canada
Languages: English (Native Speaker), French (Advanced), Lithuanian (Beginner), Russian (Beginner)
Skills: Stata, R, quanteda, spacyr, Latex, Beamer, Git
Hobbies: Running, Swimming, Cycling, Balletomane
Professional Classical Ballet Dancer:
Lietuvos Nacionalinis Operos ir Baleto Teatras, Vilnius, 2013-2015
Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati, 2012-2013