I am an applied microeconomist specializing in labor relations, economic history, construction IO, and public choice. I am particularly interested in labor market institutions, with my current research focused on unions and how deunionization in the US has affected local labor markets. Check out my recent paper on spillover effects from Starbucks organizing
I use both microeconomic theory and empirical methods to answer questions about policy market failures and the decline of U.S. labor unions. My research has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Revue D'Economie Politique, and the Labor Studies Journal, among others.
Check out unionelectionstats.com, a website to publicly distribute the NLRB election dataset that I've been cleaning and geocoding for the past seven years. Not only can you download the data for your own research, but the site will also highlight important trends and analyses with interactive visualizations.
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colorado State University.