Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University Department of Economics

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University. I am currently on the job market in the 2025-2026 academic year. 

My research is in applied microeconomics, with a focus on public economics and labor economics. I study how households adjust their consumption behavior in response to government policies and economic shocks, and how these responses shape market outcomes. 

My job market paper examines the pass-through of Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) payments to household grocery demand and retail prices. More broadly, my work leverages large-scale retailer transaction records and administrative data to measure the heterogeneous effects of public programs and to provide policy-relevant evidence.

*My name is pronounced as "sung-yawn'!

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