Microeconomics

Professor, MIT, (Spring 2025): This course introduces core concepts of microeconomic theory for graduate students in urban planning. Topics include consumer and producer behavior, cost structures, market equilibrium, elasticity, and welfare analysis. The course emphasizes applications to urban policy, covering zoning as quotas, rent control as price regulation, and licensing as supply constraints. Additional topics include externalities, asymmetric information, and signaling models, with examples drawn from housing, labor markets, and city regulation.

Planning Economics

Professor, MIT, (Spring 2025): This course focuses on applying economic reasoning to policy evaluation and urban planning. Students learn to connect theoretical models with empirical methods, using causal inference and applied econometrics to evaluate public programs. Problem sets include empirical article analysis and policy evaluation exercises, such as examining tutoring interventions and city-level planning policies. The course highlights how economics can inform decision-making on issues of housing, education, and public investment.

Quantitative Reasoning and Statistical Methods

Head Teaching Assistant, MIT, (2019, 2022): The course is focused on statistical theory and causal inference - including interpretation, finite sample results, and large sample properties. The students are introduced to causal inference. Topics include: randomized trials, regression, instrumental variables and Wald estimators, differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity design, and logistic regression.