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I am a PhD candidate in economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. I work on issues in applied econometrics, replication, and economics of science.

I am dedicated to improving methods in scientific research. My research can broadly be categorized as follows:

• Equivalence testing and practical significance testing. My job market paper introduces methods that can provide statistically significant evidence that economic relationships are practically equal to zero. In their absence, error rates in top economics journals are quite high. I’ve also employed these tests in empirical applications, such as my article in Journal of Business Ethics.
• Robustness tests for causal inference. I work on methods for testing critical assumptions in causal designs, including manipulation tests in regression discontinuity design and hypothetical bias experiments.
• Replication. I have reproduced over 120 papers throughout my PhD, and I have published replication work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have several comments under development and under invited submission concerning publications in in Management Science, Nature Human Behaviour, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

I am positioned in the Behavioral Social Sciences group within the Department of Ethics, Governance, and Society in the School of Business and Economics. I also teach at the Department of Criminology in the Faculty of Law. My PhD dissertation, “Why Do Firms Comply?”, focuses on behavioral determinants of corporate compliance with public policies.