Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics
Master of Arts in Economics
Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting
Honors in Economics
Minor in Mathematics
Expected 2027
May 2024
May 2018
Who Benefits from Urgent Care? The Impact of Urgent Care Centers on Healthcare Utilization and Spending Across Patients with Different Healthcare Needs
The Public Health and Labor Market Implications of Expanding the Nurse Practitioner Workforce
Barriers to Prescription Adherence for Oral Contraceptives
Bhutta, Neil. Jacqueline Blair, Lisa Dettling, and Kevin Moore (2020). “COVID-19, the CARES Act, and Families’ Financial Security,” National Tax Journal, Vol 73, no. 3 pp. 645-672.
Bhutta, Neil. Jacqueline Blair, and Lisa Dettling (2022). “The smart money is in cash? Financial literacy and liquid savings among US families,” Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. 107000.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Microeconomic Surveys
Worked with the team designing and analyzing the Survey of Consumer Finances. While there, I assited research measuring inequality in the United States. Acknowledged for my contributions to data analysis and background research on:
Bhutta, Neil, et al. "Changes in US Family Finances from 2016 to 2019: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances." Federal Reserve Bulletin 106.5 (2020).
Bhutta, Neil, and Lisa Dettling. "Money in the Bank? Assessing Families' Liquid Savings using the Survey of Consumer Finances." (2018).
Bricker, Jesse, Peter Hansen, and Alice Henriques Volz. "Wealth concentration in the US after augmenting the upper tail of the survey of consumer finances." Economics Letters 184 (2019): 108659.
Senior Research Assistant
Research Assistant
2019-2020
2018-2019
Case Western Reserve University
Research Assistant for Economics Department
Contributed to:
Gallagher, Justin, Daniel Hartley, and Shawn Rohlin. "Weathering an unexpected financial shock: the role of federal disaster assistance on household finance and business survival." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10.2 (2023): 525-567.
Gallagher, Justin, and Paul J. Fisher. "Criminal deterrence when there are offsetting risks: Traffic cameras, vehicular accidents, and public safety." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12.3 (2020): 202-237.
2016-2018
Research Assistant for Justin Gallagher
Contributed to:
Anderson, Michael L., Justin Gallagher, and Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie. "School meal quality and academic performance." Journal of Public Economics 168 (2018): 81-93.
Summer 2017
Instructor of Record at Cornell University
I designed and taught a first-year writing seminar for students from a variety of backgrounds and majors. The course taught students to engage with current policy issues and articulate their own evidence-based opinions on important policy topics. See my teaching page for an example syllabus.
PAM 1500: Reading and Writing in Public Policy
Spring 2023 & Fall 2022
Teaching Assistant & Section Leader at Cornell University
Led weekly review sessions where I worked with both undergraduate and master's students on practice problems and introduced them to introductory computer programming.
PUBPOL 2101: Statistics for Public Policy. Instructor: Fikri Pitsuwan
PUBPOL 2101: Statistics for Public Policy. Instructor: Divya Deepthi
PADM 5310: Applied Multivariate Statistics in Public Affairs. Instructor: Douglas Miller.
Fall 2026
Fall 2023
Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant at Cornell University
PUBPOL 2030: Population and Public Policy. Instructor: Sharon Sassler
PUBPOL 6090: Empirical Strategies for Policy Analysis. Instructor: Amanda Agan
PADM 5220: Public Finance: Economics of the Public Sector. Instructor: Nicolas Bottan
ECON 3610: The Economics of Consumer Policy. Instructor: Sharon Tennyson
Spring 2025
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2021
Sage Fellowship at Cornell University
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at the Brooks School of Public Policy
Sage Fellowship at Cornell University
H.W. Kniesner Prize to an outstanding senior in economics at Case Western Reserve University
James Dysart Magee Scholarship to an outstanding student in economics at Case Western Reserve University
AY 2025-26
Fall 2023
AY 2020-21
2018
2017
Diversity in Cornell Economics Cornell University
Vice President
Chair of Undergraduate Mentoring Committee
Active Member
I design, organize, and lead a series of events for undergraduate students on gettnig started with independent research and applying to graduate school in economics and related fields.
2024 - Present
2024 - Present
2023 - Present
Graduate Students in Public Policy Cornell University
Graduate Mentor
AY 2023-24
NextGenPop, an undergraduate summer program in population research
Undergraduate Mentor
Summer 2023
Graduate Students in Policy Analysis and Management Cornell University
Chair of Social Committee
AY 2021-22
Academy of Hope, an adult charter school in Washington, DC
Volunteer tutor, Mathematics
2018-2019
Seeds of Literacy, an adult education program in Cleveland, OH
Volunteer tutor
2015
“The Public Health and Labor Market Implications of Expanding the Nurse Practitioner Workforce” [Forthcoming, Conference presentation]. APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference 2026, Boston, MA, United States.
“Expanding the Nurse Practitioner Workforce” [Poster presentation]. 2026 Cornell Center for Health Equity Research Symposium. Ithaca, NY, United States.
“The Public Health and Labor Market Implications of Expanding the Nurse Practitioner Workforce” [Conference presentation]. APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference 2024, National Harbor, MD, United States.
“The Cost of Delayed Care” [Poster presentation]. APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference 2024, National Harbor, MD, United States.
Provider Supply and Assessment. [Forthcoming] APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference 2026, Boston, MA, United States.
3rd Cornell Economics Alumni Workshop, 2026. Ithaca, NY, United States.
Provider Regulation and Access to Health Care. 15th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economics, 2026. Minneapolis MN, United States
American Economic Association
American Society of Health Economics
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell Population Center
Cornell Health Policy Center
Python, SQL, Stata, LaTeX, R, MATLAB