Hi, I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Georgia and will be on the 2025-26 market. My research interests are in industrial organization and health economics especially in topics that blend theory and empirics.

In my job market paper, I study how taxes and capacity bans (maximum size restrictions) perform when firms use nonlinear pricing to sell goods that generate externalities. Motivated by New York City’s proposed Portion Cap Rule, I develop a theory showing that firm menu distortions can make taxes sub-optimal, while capacity bans avoid further distortions in "small" sized drinks. Using scanner data from convenience stores, I find that capacity bans yield higher welfare than taxes in about 76% of markets.