Teaching and Letters

First-year PhD Infomerical

• Read this if you’re a Western PhD student deciding whether you’d like to come talk with me about your research!

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Current courses:

• Econ 9622B: PhD Topics in Health and Education, and Empirical Contracts
  This course examines how to answer public policy questions using empirical research, with a focus on structural microeconometric work. The substantive applications are in health and education. This course also studies empirical contracts (i.e., empirical research about moral hazard and adverse selection models), again with a special application to health and education, as well as insurance markets more generally.

Previously taught courses:

• Econ 9770/9771/9880/9881: PhD Communication and Professional Development
  The focus of these courses is on improving a student’s oral and written communication skills through examining, critically evaluating, and constructively commenting on the presentations and written work of others.

• Econ 9622B: PhD Topics in Health and Education, and Empirical Contracts
  This course examines how to answer public policy questions using empirical research, with a focus on structural microeconometric work. The substantive applications are in health and education. This course also studies empirical contracts (i.e., empirical research about moral hazard and adverse selection models), again with a special application to health and education, as well as insurance markets more generally.

• Econ 9628A: PhD Public Economics
  We explore several topics in public economics, in particular theoretical and empirical work in education and health economics.

• Econ 3388A: Applied Econometrics I
  This course is designed to give Economics Honours Students a deeper understanding of modern econometrics tools. A primary focus of the course is on providing extended practical experience in estimating econometric models using real-world data sources.

• Econ 3328A: Public Economics: Expenditure
  We study welfare economics, the provision of public goods, and externalities. We will also study theoretical aspects of and empirical work in education and health economics.

• Econ 2222A: Undergraduate Intermediate Econometrics
  We cover probability and statistics, some ubiquitous probability distributions, how to make statistical inferences and test hypotheses, and linear regression models.

My PhD students:

Advisor/Co-advisor

• Tian Liu: In progress!

• Martin Luccioni: Initial placement: Post-doc at Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis

• Tomasz Handler: Initial placement: StatsCan

• George Orlov: Initial placement: Post-doc in Economics Department at Cornell University

• Jin Zhou: Initial placement: Post-doc at Center for the Economics of Human Development, University of Chicago

Committee member:

• Tyler Skura: In progress!

• Bob Millard: Initial placement: SUNY Stonybrook

• Marco Pariguana: Initial placement: Post-doc at Tulane

• Qian Liu: Initial placement: Brock University

• Yifan Gong: Initial placement: University of Nebraska-Lincoln