Recent Work

Barriers, Not Bootstraps: Job Prospects Are Uneven for Young Black Women

(with Jennifer Turner and Salma Elakbawy) 14 July 2026, Institute for Women's Policy Research

AANHPI Women's Equal Pay Day: Fact vs. Fiction About the Wage Gap

(with Anajali Nair) 12 May 2026, Institute for Women's Policy Research and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

One Year Into Trump’s Second Term, Black Women Face Disproportionate Job Losses

(with Jennifer Turner) 10 February 2026, Institute for Women's Policy Research

The Generational Wage Gap: Pay Equity Decades Away for Women Overall, Centuries Away for Women of Color

(with Martha Susana Jaimes) 17 December 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Compounding Harm: The Mental, Physical, and Economic Toll of LGBTQIA+ Inequality

(with Miranda Peterson, Victoria Gianopoulos, and Brigid Rawdon) 30 October 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Data Under Threat: Why Undercounting LGBTQIA+ Workers Fuels Inequality

(with Miranda Peterson, Victoria Gianopoulos, and Brigid Rawdon) 4 September 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Investing in Economic Opportunity for Women in North Carolina

(with Melissa Mahoney, Cristy Mendoza, Shannon Emmett, and Emily Maistrellis) 26 August 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research and the North Carolina Council for Women and Youth Involvement

State Policy Action Lab

(with Shannon Emmett, Emily Maistrellis, and Hannah Gartner) June 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Breaking Barriers: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Women and the Fight for Equal Pay

(with Melissa Mahoney, Cristy Mendoza, and Miranda Peterson) 7 April 2025, Institute for Women's Policy Research

Working Papers

Trying to Beat the Heat: Air-Conditioning and Learning

(with Nolan Pope) 2025, revise and resubmit at Education Finance Policy

Putting Maternity on Ice: The Impacts of Financial Deregulation on Fertility

(with Dheeraj Chaudhary) 2023, work in progress

The WWII Production Effort and Changes in Labor Demand for Women

2023, work in progress

My full academic CV can be downloaded here.