Our lives are increasingly sorted by politics: where we live, what media we consume, whether we attend college or church, even who we marry. As society splits along partisan lines, those divisions follow workers into the firms that employ them.
I study workplace political segregation and how it affects workers, firms, and society. For workers, I examine how political sorting shapes where people work, why they leave, and the human capital firms can draw on. For firms, I treat political division as a question of strategy, shaping who they can hire, how they compete, and how they perform. For society, I ask how organizations in turn shape civic life and the health of democracy.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia Business School. I am also a (non-resident) Affiliate Fellow at the University of Chicago's Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
My research has been published in Organization Science, is forthcoming in Nature Human Behaviour, and is under review (revise and resubmit) at Management Science and Administrative Science Quarterly. My work has also been financially supported by the National Science Foundation.
I hold a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before graduate school, I worked at McKinsey & Company in Dubai and New York, in private equity, and at the Good Jobs Institute.
Politics at Work
My research uses voter registration records linked to employment histories for tens of millions of U.S. workers, producing one of the first large-scale pictures of how partisanship operates inside firms.
You can explore our publicly-available dataset and discover the partisan makeup of organizations, occupations, and industries.
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