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.
I have chaired several sessions on topics surrounding labor economics, educational policy, and causal inference.
Gender Equity in Labor (2024): American Economic Association
Gender Equity in Labor (2023): Association for Policy Analysis and Management
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
I have served as discussant on many papers and presentations at academic and practitioner conferences:
American Economic Association ASSA (2024), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference (2023), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2023), American Causal Inference Conference (2023), Society of Labor Economists Annual Meetings (2022), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference (2022), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (2021), Center for Causal Inference Symposium (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)
I have served as reviewer for journal submissions and grant applications many times.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, BMJ Quality and Safety, Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Inquiry, Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Health, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Labor Economics, 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
I have provided quality assurance services on dozens of RAND Reports and LinkedIn reports as well as providing code reviews both while at RAND and LinkedIn. I served as an on-call quality assurance manager at RAND in the Post-secondary Education and Labor program.
I do or have recently belonged to several professional memberships. These include: 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.
I held a secret clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense, between 2013 and 2023 (when I left RAND Corporation). I also held a Contractor Fitness designation from the Department of Homeland Security starting in 2020. I am a citizen of the United States.