My research is grounded in economic sociology, public policy, and quantitative methods. I seek out topics of conceptual relevance to both sociology and economics, look for fruitful data sets, and aspire to apply advanced statistical methods in intuitive ways. My dissertation is on the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment. I also study model uncertainty, millionaire migration, and the market for medicine.
Some Published works:
"Call the Millionaire's Bluff." New York Daily News. Nov. 27, 2008. (With Charles Varner)
"Model Uncertainty in Sociological Research." American Sociological Review. June 2009.
"The Emergence of Sociology from Political Economy in the United States: 1890 to 1940." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Spring, 2009.
Recent media: my work on unemployment was cited in a USA Today Op-Ed by Tom Sander and Bob Putnam ("How Unemployment Hurts Us All," Dec. 10, 2009).
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