About

I am a labor economist with a focus on immigration and discrimination. I am interested in understanding how social changes and ethnic neighborhoods affect the outcomes of immigrants.

If you do not find me teaching or nerding out on STATA codes, you will find me cooking with my husband James, hiking with our dog Hugo, traveling or planning our next trip, or playing video games.

Research

Publications

“Ethnic Enclaves: Causes and Consequences for Immigrants”, 2024, in Refugees and Migrants - Current Conditions and Future Trends (Samson M.T. (eds)). with Mate Istvan Szurop

“Ethnic Segregation, Education, and Immigrants Labor Market Outcomes”, 2023, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 12(1). with Tian Lou

“Unemployment Insurance and Business Ownership”, 2023, International Journal of Applied Econmics Finance, 16(2), 118–126. with Lhakpa Sherpa

“Interethnic Marriages”, 2022, in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Zimmermann, K.F. eds). with Delia Furtado

“Anywhere They Go, We Go: Immigration Inflow’ Impact on Co-ethnic Natives”, 2020, Southern Economic Journal, 2020(87), 191-215. with Huanan Xu

“Intermarriage and Socioeconomic Integration: Trends in Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants Who Marry Natives”, 2015, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 662(1), 207-22. with Delia Furtado

“The Supply and Demand Factors Behind the Relative Earnings Increases in Urban China at the Turn of the 21st Century", 2013, Comparative Economic Studies, 55(1), 121- 143. with Joseph Marchand

“Albertan Labour in the Previous Energy Boom, in Institute for Public Economics”, 2013, An Examination of Alberta Labour Markets, University of Alberta, 10-24. with Joseph Marchand

Invited Columns

“How Technological Change and Globalization are Driving Higher Wages of Immigrants Married to Natives”, 2016, LSE USAPP, with Delia Furtado

Working Papers

Native-Immigrant Wage Gaps and the Growing Importance of Social Skills” (Revise and Resubmit with Journal of Human Capital)

"Young Immigrants’ Post-Secondary Education Attainment: The Role of Enclaves" with Máté Istvan Szurop

Work in Progress

“Obergefell v. Hodges’s Effect on the Career Choices of Intermarried Same-Sex Couples in the U.S.”

“You Are Where You Live. An Investigation on Efficient Refugee and Immigrant Placement Strategies”

Teaching

University of the South

Associate Professor
2017 - Present

ECON101 Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON133 Principles of Econometrics
ECON233 Applied Econometrics
ECON304 Labor Economics
ECON308 Urban Economics
ECON339 Economics of Immigration
ECON410 Research Seminar

University of Connecticut

Instructor of Record and Teaching Assistant
2012 - 2017

ECON1202 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON2202 Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON3441 Labor Economics

University of Alberta

Teaching Assistant
2010 - 2011

ECON281 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON323 International Economics

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