About

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Iowa, specializing in empirical industrial organization. My research agenda is currently centered on the effects of information asymmetry on market breakdown. I am working on my dissertation, which examines the asymmetric information structure in the market for training lawyers, a special case of markets in which consumers can only imperfectly differentiate between quality of producers and in which the quality of consumers matters to producers. I use dynamic game estimation to highlight how reputation effects and changing post-graduation reporting standards can help explain, and predict changes in, the current and continuing glut of lawyers in the United States. I further provide a measure of the benefit to society from this reporting change.

I am on the job market this year and will be available for interviews at the 2016 ASSA Meetings.