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I am the Joseph A. Pechman Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. I was formerly Associate Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and I received my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2003.

I study the economics of education, with a focus on elementary and secondary education finance and college access for disadvantaged students, and school desegregation. My research examines the adequacy of federal funding for schools during the COVID crisis as well as the educational, social, and fiscal effects of some of the most important policies of the 20th century: school desegregation, the Civil Rights Act, and Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

My research in health economics examines the advantages and disadvantages of promoting competition in health insurance markets, racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, and issues related to COVID-19 in nursing homes.