Service and Affiliations

Being part of science is being part of a community, and requires service back. These activities typically come without pay or recognition. In that effort, I have chaired or been discussant in dozens of conference session as well as reviewed submissions to academic journals dozens of additional times. I have served on a National Science Foundation review panel and am a certified Institutes of Educational Sciences What Works Clearinghouse reviewer. I have provided quality assurance services continuously while at RAND, as well working as an on-call quality assurance manager. I also have several professional appointments and memberships.

Chaired Sessions

I have chaired several sessions on topics surrounding labor economics, educational policy, and causal inference.

  • Causal Inference (2021): Center for Causal Inference Annual Symposium

  • Machine Learning Comes to Education Research (2020): American Education Finance and Policy Conference

  • Labor market returns (2018): Western Economic Association

  • Current Topics in Labor Economics (2017): Southern Economic Association

  • Efficacy of Publicly-Funded Place-Based Policies (2017): Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

  • Labor Supply (2017): Western Economic Association

  • College and major choice (2017): American Education Finance and Policy Conference

  • Labor Economics and Human Capital (2015): Southern Economic Association

Conference Discussant

I have served as discussant on many papers and presentations at academic and practitioner conferences:

Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2021), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference (2020), Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference (2020), Western Economic Association International Annual Meetings (2018), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2017), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2017), Western Economic Association Annual Meetings (2017), Essen Health Conference (2017), Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference (2017), Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference (2017), American Education Finance and Policy (2016), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2015), Western Economic Association Annual Meetings (2014), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2014)

Academic Reviewer

I have served as reviewer for journal submissions and grant applications many times.

BMJ Quality and Safety, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Inquiry, Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Journal of Rural Health, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Public Health Dentistry, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, National Science Foundation, Pediatrics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Sleep Health, Smith Richardson Foundation

Quality Assurance

I have provided quality assurance services on RAND Reports dozens of times. I also serve as an on-call quality assurance manager at RAND in the Post-secondary Education and Labor program.

Professional Memberships

I do or have recently belonged to several professional memberships. These are: American Economic Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Association for Education Finance and Policy, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Career and Technical Education Research Network, European Association of Labour Economists, Eastern Economic Association, Midwest Economic Association, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Southern Economic Association, and Western Economic Association.

Security Clearances

I hold a secret clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense, held since 2013. I hold a Contractor Fitness designation from the Department of Homeland Security, held since 2020. I am a citizen of the United States.