I study U.S. policies—including safety net and social insurance programs, as well as immigration policy—and examine how they affect outcomes of both foreign-born and U.S.-born people.
ECON 4646 - Topics in Health Economics
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Fall 2025
Growth in health expenditures worldwide over the past three decades has led to an increase in research in health economics and its importance in public policy in developed and developing countries. The purpose of this course is to encourage students to read, think, and do research on issues in health economics. This course will cover issues that are pertinent to the US, other developed and developing countries. It will cover the basics of health economics such as health production functions and the role for government as well as touching on topical issues such as health care reform. Recommended prerequisites: ECON 3818 or CSCI 3022.
ECON 8676 - Labor Economics 1
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Spring 2026
This course focuses on 1) deriving testable and quantifiable hypotheses from mathematical economic models relating to prominent policy-relevant issues in the labor market; 2) ascertaining the statistical patterns that permit identification of the parameters that govern these models; and 3) forming estimators that permit statistical inference of these parameters. The models considered are drawn from a variety of labor market contexts: static and dynamic labor supply and demand decisions, human capital investment decisions, spatial equilibrium in labor markets, and worker-firm matching with heterogeneous workers and firms.
