Hi!

I'm a 6th-year PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education studying Education Policy and Program Evaluation. 

My research focuses on higher education and workforce development. I'm particularly interested in how education and training can play a role in helping people find better opportunities in the labor market, and how people change their educational decisions in response to changes in the labor market.

You can find my CV here.

Work in Progress

The Dynamics of Financial Aid Tournaments (JMP)

The Race Between Brain Drain and Brain Gain: EU Accession and Human Capital Formation in Newly Joined Member States

Presentations and Posters

  • University of California Alianza MX Summer School on the Economics of Migration, 2025
  • Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Open Workshop, 2023, 2024
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, 2023
  • Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, 2023

Other Work

Reports

Navigating Public Job Training, Harvard Project on Workforce, 2023

(With  David Deming, Alexis Gable, and Rachel Lipson)

Report on Estonian and Nordic Experience in Implementing Free Higher Education, 2020

(With Sandis Kārkliņš, funded by the Latvian Parliament)

Other

Overview of study programs and their alumni earnings in Latvia, 2025

Latvian higher education accreditation outcomes, 2020