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Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Yale University, where I expect to complete my degree in 2027.

I am a labor economist with a secondary field in development. My work studies how demographic change, migration opportunities, and beliefs about the returns to skill shape human capital investment and the adoption of new technologies.

My job market paper, with Sabrina Peng, asks whether an older workforce slows the adoption of frontier software technologies, and why. You can read more about it on the research page.

You can reach me at tra.nguyen@yale.edu, and my CV is available here.