With Owen Benner, I studied the financial and environmental outcomes associated with Texas’s ESG investment restrictions. The paper combines difference-in-differences, quantile regression, and synthetic control, with attention to uncertainty and the challenges of separating policy effects from pandemic-era shocks.
Paper (PDF)At the BYU Silver Fund, I replicated and extended academic asset pricing anomalies, explored fine-tuned language models for 10-K filings, and implemented portfolio backtests using risk models and constrained optimization.
As a research assistant to Tanner Eastmond at BYU, I contributed to work on the returns to foreign language acquisition and the longer-run effects of international exposure. My work included record linkage in Stata, regression analysis, and historical newspaper data collection.