Welcome!

I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the Munich Graduate School of Economics, part of the Egon Sohmen Graduate Center. I'm on the 2025/26 academic job market.

I study how invisible frictions and unexpected shocks in health and labor markets shape people's lives and deepen inequality. Sometimes these frictions hide in plain sight: in the complexity of medical instructions patients are sent home with, in the long shadow a sibling's disability casts over a family, or in the way a sudden currency shock rewrites how couples divide their work. My research brings these hidden forces to the surface and asks what policy can do about them.

In my job market paper, The Cost of Complexity, I show that harder-to-read hospital discharge instructions increase patient mortality, especially for conditions like heart failure that demand daily self-management. Simplifying how clinicians communicate with patients could save lives at very low cost.

Before the Ph.D., I spent two years as a pre-doctoral research assistant at Stanford University, working with David Chan on healthcare delivery.