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department of economics
interview with students:
monday 11:00am -12:00pm
job title:
assistant professor
education:
2018 phd, economics, university of toronto (2011-2018)
2011 ma, economics, queen’s university (2010-2011)
2009 ba, economics, university of british colombia (2005-2009)
working experience:
2021-present: assistant professor, school of economics at peking university
2018-2021: assistant professor and lecturer, university college dublin
2009 –2010: research assistant, bank of canada
research field:
labor economics, demographic economics, health economics
working papers:
correcting for transitory effects in rcts: evidence from the rand health insurance experiment (joint with mona balesh abadi and farah omran – revisions requested at canadian journal of economics )
identifying the value of teamwork: evidence from professional tennis clef working paper link (submitted)
returns to value-added in teamwork: evidence from economic research(presentation at canada labour economics forum 2020)
concentration and low wages in irish local labour markets (joint with lucy liu and zuzanna studnicka – funded by the low pay commission of ireland)
divorce, remarriage, and fertility with on-the-marriage search (joint with laura turner)
personal evidence on interpersonal skills
works in progress:
stocking up or putting off? time inconsistent preferences versus durability in the dynamics of health spending (joint with margaret samahita)
gender, partnership, and the earnings gap in professional tennis (joint with kerim peren arin) paternity certainty and early childhood investment: application to the semi-monogamous bari people
taxes and state-dependent firm level investment behaviour (joint with kerim peren arin and mieszko mazur)
invited seminars:
tsinghua university school of economics and management 2020 (online)
new york university abu dhabi 2020
american university of sharjah 2020
zayed university 2020
erasmus school of economics 2019
shanghaitech university school of entrepreneurship and management 2019
conference presentations:
canadian labour economics forum 2020 (online)
international association for research in economic psychology – society for the advancement of behavioural economics, 2019
american european health economics study group, 2019
asian meetings of the econometric society, 2019
european economics association, 2014, 2019
canadian economics association, 2012-2019
irish behavioural science and policy network 2018
canadian public economics group 2018
canadian labour economics forum 2018
society of labor economics 2018
the intersection of econometrics and applied micro (rotman school of management), 2017
society for economic dynamics, 2014
search and matching, 2013
canadian law and economics association, 2012
