Positions Held
2023 - Present Associate Professor, Career Line Salt Lake City, UT
University of Utah
2017 - 2023 Assistant Professor of Economics (granted tenure) Wilmington, NC
University of North Carolina Wilmington
2014 - 2017 Research Economist, Public Health Economics Group Durham, NC
RTI International
2008 - 2014 Teaching Assistant Santa Barbara, CA
University of California Santa Barbara
2005 - 2008 Credit Analyst San Diego, CA
California Bank & Trust
Education
2014 Ph.D., Economics
University of California Santa Barbara
2005 B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance,
Westminster College
Publications
(with Mouhcine Guettabi) Journal of Health Economics, 2023
Financial Outcomes Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in California Hospitals
(with Yu Wang, David Cho, and Ethan Watson) JAMA Health Forum, 2022
Prenatal Substance Use Policies and Newborn Health
(with Angelica Meinhofer, Johanna Catherine Maclean, and Yuhua Bao) Health Economics, 2022
Prenatal Substance Use Policies and Infant Maltreatment Reports
(with Johanna Catherine Maclean, Angelica Meinhofer, Christine Peiette Durrance, and Danielle N. Atkins) Health Affairs, 2022
Marijuana Liberalization Policies and Perinatal Health
(with Angelica Meinhofer, Jesse Hinde, and Kosali Simon) Journal of Health Economics, 2021
So You Want to Go to Graduate School? Factors that Influence Admissions to Economics
PhD Programs
(with Adam Jones, Peter Schuhmann, and Daniel Soques) Journal of Economic Education, 2020
Family Structure and the Gender Gap in ADHD
(with Kelly Bedard) Review of Economics of the Household, 2019
(with Angelica Meinhofer) Addiction, 2019
Rollmatch: An R Package for Rolling Entry Matching
(with Kasey Jones, Rob Chew, Mahin Manley, and Yiyan Liu) The R Journal, 2019
(with Chris Beadles, Tom Hoerger, Yiyan Liu, Nilay Kafali, Sabina Gandhi, Peter Amico, and Ann Larsen) Health Services Research, 2018
(with Angelica Meinhofer) Journal of Health Economics, 2018
Impact of Financial Incentives on Service Use, Spending, and Health in Medicaid
(with Melissa Romaire, Maria Alva, Joseph Acqah, and Thomas Hoerger) American Journal of Preventive
Medicine, 2018
(with Joseph Acquah, Maria Alva, Thomas Hoerger, and Melissa Romaire) Health Services Research, 2018
Public Health Insurance and Disparate Eligibility of Spouses: The Medicare Eligibility Gap
Journal of Health Economics, 2015
Intergenerational Effects on Health, In Utero and Early Life
(with Heather Royer) Encyclopedia of Health Economics, 2014
Awards and Fellowships
UNCW Honors Faculty Adviser of the Year, 2022
Cameron School of Business Summer Research Grant, 2022 ($9,000)
UNCW Charles L. Cahill Grant, 2020 - 2021 ($5,000)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action Research Grant, 2020 - 2022 ($50,000)
Cameron School of Business Summer Research Grant, 2020 ($9,000)
Cameron School of Business Collaborative Summer Research Grant, 2018 ($10,500)
Support for Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award, 2018 ($5,000)
RTI International Professional Development Award, 2015-2016 ($50,000)
Economics Department Teaching Assistant of the Year, 2012-2013
University of California Doctoral Student Travel Grant, 2013
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara, 2011-2012
Andron Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara, 2008-2009
Health Economist