Rachel is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Maryland and works part-time as an Economist at the Census Bureau producing statistics on dispersion in productivity. Rachel has research interests in the impacts of mental health on productivity, early childhood interventions, heterogeneous labor force participation responses to the presence of children, and the estimation of networks with unobserved links.
PhD in Economics, 2024 (Expected)
University of Maryland
MS in Economics, 2020
University of Maryland
BA in Economics, 2017
University of North Carolina
Comparing conflicting evidence from recent papers by Bastian (2020) and Kleven (2019), I analyze the effect of the 1975 introduction of the Earned Income Tax Credit on married mothers’ labor force participation. I find that, in contrast with later reforms, the 1975 introduction had a positive effect on married mother’s employment.
Online: Summer 2021
TA: Fall 2019 - Summer 2020
TA: Spring 2019
TA: Fall 2018