I am a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for demographic research. I am a member of the Department of Digital and Computational Demography.

I obtained my Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University and the Centre de rechere sur les inegalités sociales (formerly the Observatoire du changement social) at Sciences Po Paris in 2020.

My dissertation analyzed financial transfers from parents to adult children in twenty European countries. I used the Survey of Ageing, Health and Retirement in Europe to examine how the number and gender of sibs influences transfers, which events in the children’s lives (unemployment, divorce, childbirth) trigger transfers, and how these transfers evolve over time.

I also collaborated on a meta-analysis of field experiments of racial discrimination in hiring. We found that discrimination against African-Americans in the United States has not changed since 1990 (original article, Harvard Business Review summary). We also compared discrimination across nine countries. We found evidence for discrimination in all countries and against five different minority groups.