Bio

I am an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),  an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) and the CESifo Network. 

My research analyzes the determinants of financial well-being and the nature of financial distress, traces the frontier of how entrepreneurship and technology can solve social problems, and identifies market failures and the implications for appropriate corrective policies. In recent projects, I've been working on improving our understanding of the economic consequences of health care policy, the consumer bankruptcy system, and financial and insurance technology.  I teach Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students. 

I was born and raised in Madison, WI and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012 with degrees in Economics, Mathematics, and Political Science. I worked as a research assistant for Professor Amy Finkelstein at NBER before beginning my Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. I completed my Ph.D. in June 2018 and was a post-doctoral fellow in Household Finance at NBER for the 2018-2019 academic year before joining HBS.