I am an applied microeconomist specializing in industrial relations, regional economic development, construction IO, and economic history. 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.
I use a combination of microeconomic theory and empirical methods to answer questions such as: why do strikes occur, and what contributed to the decline of U.S. labor unions. My research has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Revue D'Economie Politique, Labor Studies Journal, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, among others.
Stay tuned for the release of 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.