Research

Working Papers

• Metropolitan Social Networks and Migration: Insights from Facebook Connections (solo-authored)

2nd Round Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Regional Science

Presentations: WEAI2023; SEA2022; Georgia Tech

• From School to Work: How Alumni Networks on LinkedIn Shape PhD Journeys (solo-authored)

Revise & Resubmit at Economic Modelling

Presentations: SEA2023, Georgia Tech, Hunan University

• Does Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Empower the Under-Represented? Interstate Mobility of Human Capital in the United States

With Junemi J. Kang, Raine Sagramsingh, Haizheng Li and Julia Melkers

Reject & Resubmit at Population Research and Policy Review

Presentations: 2022 APPAM Fall Research Conference*

• The Impact of Alumni Networks on First Job Location: Insights from LinkedIn Resumes (solo-authored) 

Presentations: SEA2024, The Society for Economic Measurement 2024; SRSA2024; Georgia Tech

• Tenure Track Reform and Research Productivity

With Lanfang Deng and Xin Gu

Presentations: SEA2024, WEAI2024*, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University*

• Interstate In-Migration of Young Adults without College Degrees, 2012-2019

With Junemi J. Kang, Raine Sagramsingh, Haizheng Li and Julia Melkers

Works in Progress 

• Helping or Hurting? The Gendered Impact of NSF China Policies on Women in Academia

With Lanfang Deng, Feng Hu and Xuan Jiang

Presentations: SOLE2025 Poster*, Villanova University*, Hunan University*, South China Normal University*

• Regional fiscal autonomy and migration patterns of highly skilled workers

With Vikrant Kamble

*Presented by coauthors