Research

I study how gender and family transitions (re)produce labor market inequality and work opportunities, including labor force participation, hiring outcomes, stereotypes and bias, and wages and salary. 

I have two main lines of work. First, I uncover essential theoretical and empirical processes related to gender and racial discrimination in hiring processes. In my dissertation, I focus on how perceptions around future childbearing risk shape stereotypes and hiring, as well as the role of organizations in reproducing inequalities. Second, I study how family transitions shape labor market trajectories and outcomes and how this relationship varies by gender. Throughout my work, I apply an intersectional lens to account for the variation that exists across different dimensions of inequality like race and ethnicity, and social class.

I combine these substantive interests with novel data collection and use a range of methods—including experimental methods, computational methods, quantitative survey analyses, and qualitative interviews to examine important theoretical processes and understand potential mechanisms to inequality.