This course provides an introduction to development economics. Its main objective is to help students understand key macroeconomic models relevant to economic development, including the Solow growth model and Lewis's dual-sector labor-surplus model. It also covers methods for measuring poverty and inequality, such as the Gini index, Lorenz curve, headcount index, and poverty lines. Additionally, the course explores microeconomic perspectives, focusing on individual and household decision-making related to labor supply, and investments in health and education.
Textbook: Economics of Development (7th edition), by D. Perkins, S. Radelet, D. Lindauer and S. Block.
This course offers insights into key topics in microeconomic analysis, focusing on how individuals and firms make decisions, how they interact in markets, and how different market structures, such as perfect competition and monopoly, as well as government intervention can influence market outcomes. Key topics include supply and demand analysis, utility maximization and consumer choice, the theory of the firm and supply determination, models of competitive and non-competitive industries, and, finally, general equilibrium and economic efficiency.
Textbook: Microeconomics (9th edition), by R. Pindyck and D. Rubinfeld.
This course intended for second-year Economics PhD students covers methods for causal inference, including randomization, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and propensity score matching. I led weekly discussion sections, held office hours, and graded problem sets.
This course intended for Applied Economics Master's students covers key game theory concepts, such as static games of complete information, Nash equilibrium, auctions, repeated games, signaling, screening, and principal-agent problems. I graded problem sets and held office hours.
This course intended for Applied Economics Master's students covers both experimental and non-experimental econometric methods for program evaluation. I graded problem sets and held office hours.
This course intended for Bachelor of Science students covers key topics in microeconomic analysis, such as consumer preferences and utility maximization, market demand, choice under uncertainty, production and cost theory, welfare analysis of competitive markets, monopoly, price discrimination, oligopoly, markets with asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods. I led weekly discussion sections, graded exams and problem sets and held office hours.
This course intended for Bachelor of Arts students covers the same topics as ECON 326 above but the focus is on intuition and graphical representation rather than on rigorous mathematical derivations. I graded problem sets and held office hours.
This upper-level course covers econometric methods for obtaining causal estimate of the impact of government programs and policies. I graded problem sets and held office hours.
This general education course covers key microeconomics principles, such as supply and demand, markets, elasticity, efficiency, government intervention, international trade, externalities, public goods and common resources, costs of production, perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly, game theory, decision making, information, time and uncertainty, taxation, poverty, and inequality. I held weekly discussion section, held office hours, and graded exams.
Helped with preparation for Economics PhD Comprehensive Exams.