Sociologist. Mixed methods: quantitative, computational, interpretative, historical – and theory.
Come for the oversharing, stay for the decolonial STS and public health; or how a biosecurity model enabled a break from biopolitics.
A feminist critique of economics as it's used by centrist policy-makers, in the form of a parody.
Written with Michelle Jackson of Stanford. A review of the role of socio-psychological/ non-cognitive/ personality characteristics in social mobility and attainment; what economists identified as "dark matter" of human capital models.
Giving mothers of under-threes money unconditionally, and somewhat universally, reduced child neglect in New Zealand.
Comment, with Susan Harkness. A widely-discussed quantitative comparative analysis of poverty neglects gender, and the mutual construction of employment rates, household formation, and welfare states.
Dissertation. The subjective sense of self, as agentic or entrepreneurial, shapes social class reproduction, earnings inequality, and mental health in unexpected ways in the UK and US.
Preprint. Non-cognitive skills or character traits assessed at age 10 are consistent with gendered profiles of neurodivergence, and a mechanism of class reproduction in Britain.
Preprint. It is partially true that a sense of self-entrepreneurialism determines earnings in the United States.
Culture on the Couch
Therapy culture promises mental health and produces the opposite. Based on analysis of 1,700 therapy session transcripts, I argue therapy culture's performance of self exacerbates performance anxiety.