Public Budgeting & Finance (2026, early view)
Using OECD panel data and a staggered difference-in-differences design, we show that gender budgeting shifts sectoral budget allocations only when it carries a legal mandate; simple adoption alone has little effect.
Politics, Groups, and Identities (2025, online first)
We analyze over 180,000 staff contracts from the U.S. House of Representatives to revisit how members’ demographics and party shape the representation of women and people of color among senior, DC, and district staff.
Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(3): 725–746
A conjoint experiment showing how the design and framing of ageing policy can ease intergroup conflict between younger and older residents in Taipei City.
Job Market Paper · Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART)
A stacked difference-in-differences study of predictive algorithms in U.S. child protection, showing that adoption erodes analytical capacity—lower substantiation rates and slower investigations—without expanding operational capacity.
Working paper
This paper shows that bureaucratic discretion activates active representation only in offices with a higher share of female managers, where identity-based willingness meets institutional opportunity.
Working paper
A continuous difference-in-differences study of 25 U.S. federal agencies, showing that GenAI augmentation—not automation—is negatively associated with employee job satisfaction as work shifts from creation to verification.
Working paper
An event-study and IV design evaluating how California’s board gender quota (SB 826) reshaped women’s representation across organizational levels, from executives to the broader workforce.