Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 2018 - present School of Business and Economics Assistant Professor of Economics
EDUCATION
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2018 Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies Doctor of Philosophy in Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2013 Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics Bachelor of Arts in Economics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, International Trade, Applied Microeconomics
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
"Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil" (with Peter Brummund), Forthcoming at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
"Evaluating the Impact of the Labor Market Conditions Index on Labor Market Forecasts" (with Alice Sheehan), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (2018)
WORKING PAPERS
"The Effects of a Trade Shock on Gender-Specific Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil" "Labor Market Consequences of Export Competition with China: The Case of Brazil" (with Peter Brummund), In Progress
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (INSTRUCTOR)
Economic Decision Analysis, Fall 2018 Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, and Spring 2018
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (ASSISTANT)
Labor Economics, Economic Growth and Development, Political Economy of Terrorism, Intermediate Microeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics (Distance Learning)
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
AEA Summer Fellow, U.S. International Trade Commission, Summer 2016 Research Assistant, University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy, 2013
PRESENTATIONS
Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2018 (Scheduled) Southern International/Development Economics Workshop, Atlanta, GA, 2018 Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, 2017 Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, Winston-Salem, NC, 2017 Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 2017 American Economic Association Annual Meeting (Poster Session), Chicago, IL, 2017 Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2016 US International Trade Commission, Office of Economics, Washington, DC, 2016 Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2015
AWARDS & GRANTS
Summer Excellence in Research Grant, University of Alabama, 2017 Summer Excellence in Research Grant, University of Alabama, 2015
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for The Review of Regional Studies and The Southern Economic Journal
REFERENCES
Dr. Peter Brummund Assistant Professor Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies University of Alabama, 253 Alston Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone: (205) 348-5604; email: pbrummund@cba.ua.edu
Dr. Walter Enders Professor Emeritus (Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance) Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies University of Alabama, 200 Alston Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone: (205) 348-6094; email: wenders@cba.ua.edu
Dr. Paul Pecorino James Patrick and Elizabeth B. Hayes Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies University of Alabama, 268 Alston Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone: (205) 348-0379; email: ppecorin@cba.ua.edu