Teaching

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to labor economics, covering topics including labor supply and demand, human capital, unemployment, wage determination, and labor market discrimination. The course employs a flipped classroom model where students watch video lectures before class and participate in discussions and group work during sessions.

The second semester of the Department of Economics honors thesis program. Students complete their empirical analysis, write the full thesis, and prepare for the oral defense. The seminar includes progress presentations, peer feedback, and practice defenses.

An advanced research seminar covering six major areas: labor supply and demand determinants, job search models, unemployment insurance design, wage dispersion causes, and behavioral economics applications. The course emphasizes empirical methods in labor economics, structural and reduced-form estimation techniques, and exposure to current research.

Focuses on tax and transfer system design through optimal taxation theory and empirical public finance. Students learn sufficient statistics approaches to welfare analysis and develop a research proposal combining theoretical and empirical components.