Welcome!

I am a fifth year economics PhD student at the Norwegian School of Economics NHH and affiliated with FAIR.

My primary research field is behavioral economics and I use field, lab, and survey experiments to study questions in the economics of education and gender.

My research agenda is centered around understanding how informational and behavioral barriers affect the decision-making of parents and children.

During the fall and winter quarter 2023/2024, I visited the University of Chicago hosted by Ariel Kalil at the Harris School of Public Policy. I hold both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim.

Work in Progress

Parental Belief Updating About Children’s Abilities: Experimental Evidence from Norway
Status: Data collection in progress.

Does Parental Feedback Shape Children’s (Over)Confidence?
with Kai Barron, Michela Carlana, Oda Sund
Status: Data collection in progress.

Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Economic Prospects Affect Parental Investments
with Mesmin Destin, Ivan A. Hernandez, Ariel Kalil, Rebecca M. Ryan, David Silverman
Status: Draft in preparation.
*Presented at the NBER Economics of Mobility Meeting, Fall 2024*

Publications

Economic Mobility and Parents’ Opportunity Hoarding
with Mesmin Destin, Ivan A. Hernandez, Ariel Kalil, Rebecca M. Ryan, David Silverman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024

▶ Abstract Link

Two studies examine how American parents’ beliefs about the economy affect their support for policies and behaviors that give them and their child a “leg up,” even when this comes at the cost of other families’ access to educational and economic opportunities. Counterintuitively, the results show that believing in the American Dream increases affluent parents’ likelihood of engaging in such opportunity hoarding. In other words, affluent parents responded to the possibility that other people would be able to climb the socioeconomic ladder by trying to secure their own children’s future opportunities and limiting those available to less affluent parents and their children. These findings deepen understandings of the factors that contribute to rising economic inequalities.