Welcome! I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Economics at NYU.
My research focuses on industrial organization, health economics, and econometrics.
You can find my CV here.
Research
Work in Progress
Demand Estimation with Market-Share Rankings
*Presented at EARIE 2026
Abstract
We propose a partial identification approach to estimate demand systems with market-level data when market shares are unobserved, but rankings of product sales are available. As is standard, we model consumer choice as arising from comparing product-specific utilities, which is the sum of systematic utilities (equal for all consumers) and idiosyncratic taste components. Market shares rankings restrict the feasible set of systematic utilities via demand inversion, which leads to moment inequalities that partially identify demand parameters. Our identified set is sharp under weak regularity, and the approach applies to a wide class of demand specifications, including random-coefficient models. The method accommodates endogenous product characteristics and can incorporate exact knowledge about some of the market shares for tighter identification. To compute confidence sets, we implement a computationally attractive procedure based on convex optimization for demand coefficients in the multinomial and nested logit models. In Monte Carlo simulations, our method systematically provides meaningful bounds with correct statistical coverage around the true demand parameters. In contrast, the leading approach in the literature of imputing market shares using power-law models before estimating demand results in substantial under-coverage of the true parameter.
Incorporating Wait Times in Health Insurance Design
Policy Papers
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Government vs. Community Action Across the United States
COVID Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers 7, CEPR, 2020
Abstract
Are lockdown policies effective at inducing physical distancing to counter the spread of COVID-19? Can less restrictive measures that rely on voluntary community action achieve a similar effect? Using data from 40 million mobile devices, we find that a lockdown increases the percentage of people who stay at home by 8% across US counties. Grouping states with similar outbreak trajectories together and using an instrumental variables approach, we show that time spent at home can increase by as much as 39%. Moreover, we show that individuals engage in limited physical distancing even in the absence of such policies, once the virus takes hold in their area. Our analysis suggests that non-causal estimates of lockdown policies’ effects can yield biased results. We show that counties where people have less distrust in science, are more highly educated, or have higher incomes see a substantially higher uptake of voluntary physical distancing. This suggests that the targeted promotion of distancing among less responsive groups may be as effective as across-the-board lockdowns, while also being less damaging to the economy.