Reports & Memos
Analysis commissioned and used by public agencies
Applied and Policy Work
- City of Boston. Research partnership on the SuccessLink summer jobs program, which serves more than 10,000 young people a year. I wrote 12 analytical memos for the director of the City's Worker Empowerment Cabinet, built on linked state education records, applications and employers' hiring decisions.
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Evaluation of a statewide Medicaid care-coordination program using fee-for-service claims (more than 50 million records); emergency department spending fell about 20 percent.
- New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Invited talk, 2026.
Media Coverage and Writing
- Research on California's fast-food minimum wage covered by Inc. and Phys.org.
- California fast-food minimum wage paper cited in a VoxEU column by Vitor Melo, David Neumark, Liam Sigaud and Gary A. Wagner (2026).
- Research on New York City congestion pricing covered by Social Storytellers Collective.
- Op-ed, “IndiGo's Dominance: Fragile Skies, Fare Caps, and India's Aviation Market,” New India Abroad.