• I'm a Ph.D. student of Economics at the University of Florida. My primary fields of interests are economics of education, health economics and the intersection of the two fields. In particular, my doctoral work includes research on evaluating the impact of school accountability systems on adolescent obesity, on weather teachers' high grading standards contribute to childhood obesity and on the effects of state sex education policies on adolescent health. These studies represent an attempt to understand the indirect and unintended effects of education policies on children’s health and provide insights into education policy making and reform.

 

• Currently, I'm working as a research assistant to David Figlio at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University.

    

 

                A chat between two economists!

• --Two economists were walking down the street when they noticed two women yelling across the street at each other from their apartment windows.
• --Of course they will never come to agreement, stated the first economist. 
• --And why is that, inquired his companion.
• --Why, of course, because they are arguing from different premises.