About Me

I am an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to starting at UVa, I was a postdoctoral researcher in household finance at the NBER. I received my PhD in finance from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Before Berkeley, I worked in the Bank of Canada's Regulatory Policy Division and did my undergraduate degree at McGill University in Economics.

My research concerns household finance in the consumer credit markets. Specifically, I study informational interventions that seek to improve households’ abilities to make financial decisions. Additionally, I examine how households’ use of potentially predatory products (payday), consumption smoothing, and debt relief (bankruptcy and debt forgiveness) affects their financial and psychological well-being.