Curriculum Vitae
EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer (Tenure-Track), Department of Economics, University of Essex 2006-Present
EDUCATION
Cornell University, Ph.D Economics 2006
Cornell University, M.A. Economics 2004
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, B.Sc. Mathematics and Economics 2000 Honors in Economics, President’s Fellow in Mathematics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
PAPERS
“Unemployment and Vulnerability: A New Class of Measures, Its Axiomatic Properties and Applications,” (with Kaushik Basu) in Prasanta Pattaniaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Youngsheng Xu, and Naoki Yoshihara (eds.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare, Springer: Heidelberg, 2009
“Will the Real Family-Friendly Employer Please Stand Up: Who Permits Parents to Reduce Working Hours For Purposes of Childcare?” (with Robert Hutchens), in Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider (eds.) Workplace Felxibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce, Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY forthcoming
WORKING PAPERS
“Choosing to Compete: The Role of Single-Sex Education” (with Alison Booth) under review
“Gender Differences in Risk Behavior: Does Nurture Matter?” (with Alison Booth) under review
“Cell Phones and Economic Development: Evidence from South Africa” (with Stefan Klonner and Irene Marzolff)
“Race and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (with Erica Field)
“Unemployment and Family-Values: A Household Distribution Sensitive Measure of Unemployment” under review
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Turning Off the Lights: Crime, Public Announcement and Rolling Blackouts in Gauteng” (with Stefan Klonner)
“Responding to Adverse Shocks: Evidence from Rural China” (with Shuaizhang Feng)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Nuffield Academy Small Grant in Social Sciences, 2007
British Academy Research Grant, 2006
Research Promotion Fund, University of Essex 2006
Small Grant in Behavioral Economics, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
Graduate Research Grant, Cornell University, 2005
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2001-2006
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Thomas J. Watson Foundation, 2000-2001
SEMINARS
Australian National University (Invited Speaker, 9th Annual Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop), Cornell University, Claremont McKenna College, US Naval Academy, University of Essex, Warwick University, Oxford University (CSAE), St. Andrew’s University, CEPR Development Workshop (October 2008), Sussex University, Lake Forest, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Exeter University, Frankfurt University, University of Minho
REFEREE
Journal of Development Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, The Journal of Economics Inequality, ESRC Research Grants, National Research Foundation (South Africa), 3ie Research Proposals
