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Open Philanthropy Investigations

• Telecommunications in LMICs

• Civil conflict reduction

Journalism

• Taylor Swift, imperfect capitalist? (The Economist)

  The pop star could have made even more money from her $2bn tour

• Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning? (Asterisk Magazine)

  Across the world, more students than ever are in school. But it’s not clear that they're learning more while there — or if that’s even the goal.

• Every generator is a policy failure (Works in Progress)

  Power outages force businesses across Africa to rely on expensive, dirty diesel generators. Price caps block improvement, but removing them isn’t easy.

• Ukraine’s Eurovision victory was political. So is Eurovision itself (The Washington Post)

  Eurovision songs and voting are sometimes war by other means.

• If Fire Saga really wanted to win Eurovision, this is what they needed to know (The Washington Post)

  Hint: it didn't involve elves.

Living Literature Review On Migration

• The Mariel Boatlift

  What happens when a city adds 125,000 immigrants almost overnight?

Patents

• Moderating a user's sensory experience with respect to an extended reality

  A method, performed by an XR rending device having a sensory sensitivity control device, for moderating a first user's sensory experience with respect to an XR environment.

• Methods and devices related to extended reality

  A method for collaborative spatial mapping.

Political Science

• Domestic Violence Injuries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Medical Records

  Published 2024 in the Review of Economics of the Household. With Lauren Schechter (CU Boulder) and Susan Parker (University of Michigan).

• Power, Parity and Proximity: How Distance and Uncertainty Condition the Balance of Power

  With Michael P. Hulme (UCSD), Erik Gartzke (UCSD), and Alex Braithwaite (University of Arizona). Working paper available on request.

• Geographic Voting in Eurovision

  Poster for POLI 274 Text as Data
  Github Repo
  If Fire Saga really wanted to win Eurovision, this is what they needed to know (The Washington Post)

Physics

• Resonant Production of Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe (2015-2017)

  Thesis: Resonant Production of Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe
  

• American Astronomical Society Working Group on Accessibility and Disability

  AAS 228

• A Self-Consistent Treatment of Sterile Neutrinos In Early Universe (2015)

  APS DNP poster
  2015 SURF Report

• Active-Sterile Mixing in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (2013)

  2014 TASC talk
  2013 SURF report
  2013 SURF poster