I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. I received my B.A. in Economics and Philosophy and my M.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University, and my Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019. I joined UCLA in 2020 following a visiting fellowship at the NBER. I am a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER (Labor Studies) and a Research Affiliate at IZA.
My research lies at the intersection of labor economics, criminal justice, and applied econometrics. Much of my work examines how contact with the criminal justice system—particularly incarceration—shapes recidivism and labor market trajectories. I also study interventions designed to reduce or prevent such contact, including restorative justice conferencing and mobile crisis response teams as substitutes for police in 911 calls. I tackle these questions using administrative data, quasi-experimental research designs, and novel empirical methods.
My work has appeared in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, among other outlets. I am the recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship for Economics (2025), the Hellman Fellows Award (2024), and the Excellence in Reviewing Award from the American Economic Review (2025). I received the George Break Prize for best performance in public finance during my PhD at UC Berkeley (2016), and the E. Berglas Award for best economics paper by a graduate student at Tel Aviv University (2011).