Welcome!

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy (Economics Track) at Harvard University, where I study the labor market and fiscal effects of social insurance reforms using rich administrative labor market data. 

My Job Market Paper examines the employment consequences of Germany’s short-time work (Kurzarbeit) program during the COVID-19 crisis, while my broader dissertation explores how health insurance expansions and wage regulations in healthcare reshape labor and product markets. My pre-dissertation work has been published in Health Affairs and a Springer Nature volume, based on a large RCT I co-led in California and fieldwork on Saudi youth policy I conducted in Jeddah.

At Harvard, I am affiliated with the Center for European Studies and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Before pursuing my Ph.D., I was a research fellow at Stanford University and earned a B.Sc. in International Economics and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Tübingen.