Terence Highsmith

Terence is a PhD student in Economics studying the foster care system using supply and demand frameworks and experiments. Projects in his agenda include fairly allocating tasks to caseworkers to prevent burnout, understanding how good matches are made in foster care, and developing new matching algorithms to assign children in need of homes to temporary families. Creating practical tools that real people can use to solve real problems motivates his work. He also has an interest in theoretically designing algorithms for resource allocation within firms and uses experiments for empirical evaluation of their effects. Terence is a husband, dad of one, and occasional foster dad to children in short-term emergencies. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, exercising, spending time with friends and family, and playing catch with his toddler son.