Welcome!

I'm Kory, a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. I am currently on the 2026–2027 job market.

I'm an applied microeconomist using quasi-experimental methods and administrative and spatial data to study utilization, congestion, and capacity in public systems. My current work examines immigration enforcement, asking how state intervention can create vertical externalities for local criminal-justice institutions. Another strand of my research studies public transit, exploiting a novel natural experiment to examine how changes in accessibility affect ridership across urban transit networks.

My coauthored work studies how the management and organization of indigent defense affect attorney labor markets and criminal-justice outcomes, and how shocks to the demand for judicial services affect the supply of small-business credit.

Before my PhD, I worked in litigation consulting on matters involving labor and employment law.