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I am a first-year law student at Yale Law School, and a second-year economics PhD candidate at Harvard University.
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My research focuses on (1) law and language models, (2) economic history, and (3) tax policy. My code base for public research is accessible through my github link, and you can reach me at chencarissa [at] gmail [dot] com.
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I am a poet, and before I started college, I apprenticed to a classical portrait painter. I graduated with a degree in history from Harvard College, and completed my masters in economics at Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship.
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LLMs and Machine Learning
The Ordinary Reader Test for LLMs (Draft: October 2025)
[SSRN] [Harvard Law Today] [Panel Event]
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Machine Learning Models for Macroeconomic Forecasting of Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Economic History
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An Intergenerational Biography of the Descendants of Enslaved People of the Royall Family
[The New York Times] [The Boston Globe]
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Convict Leasing in Post-Reconstruction Alabama
[Draft Available Upon Request]
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A Private Rebellion in a Public Bank: Hsia Pin-Fang and the Bank of China During the Chinese Civil War
[Harvard Center for History and Economics]
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Tax Law and Tax Policy
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Expanding Child Care Supply in the United States: The Case for Employer-Based Credits