Teaching Portfolio
Description for Students:
What is economics? How does economics help us understand the world around us?
Specifically, why do people make the choices they do? How do people coordinate their behavior with others, supplying the goods and services that others desire? How do prices come to be and how do profits and losses drive entrepreneurship and progress? How do monopolies operate and what implications does that have on the economy? What determines the inequality we see in markets? And what is the government’s role in the economy?
By the end of the semester, you should be able to apply the economic way of thinking to answer these questions and leave with a better understanding of markets, the government, and society at large.
Description for Students:
What is economics? How does economics help us understand the world around us?
Specifically, why are some nations rich, while other nations are poor? What are “business cycles” and why do they occur? What causes unemployment? What is inflation and what causes it? And what is the government’s role in the economy?
These are some of the questions we will explore throughout this course. By the end of the semester you should have a good understanding of how the economy operates at the aggregate or “macro” level.
Description for Students:
This course is designed to help you use modern statistical tools to analyze economic relationships. The objectives of this course are to build a solid, theoretical framework for econometric analysis, to perform critical analysis of policy and program initiatives, and apply these techniques to your own individual research programs. The objectives of this course are to give you the ability to understand the empirical analyses performed by social scientists and the skills to do your own empirical analysis.
By the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Describe the difference between correlation and causation.
2. Interpret statistical information whether that be in academic research or in the news.
3. Use statistical software (e.g., Stata) to analyze data.
4. Perform basic data analysis on your own.
5. Evaluate the data analysis of others.
6. Create outputs such as regression tables or data visualization based on your data analysis.
Teaching Philosophy
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What Students are Saying
“The problem sets really tie the concepts that we’ve learned in class together well. I found them very helpful, as I feel like I’ve gotten a better understanding of the concepts after completing each problem set. The presentation was also very fun to work on. You get to apply the knowledge learned from this class to something you’re interested in. I liked how you tied actual research papers into the course as well.” -ECON345 Student
“This professor was always available to help, whenever I needed it. Since I had a class during the time of her office hours, she would be every flexible and would take out time to help me with whatever I needed help with. Going to her office hours were very helpful, and this is one of the reasons why I got good grades on my exams. She explains everything so well, and doesn’t stop explaining until the student fully understands the topic.” -ECON104 Student
“Very open minded professor who listens to her students ideas and inquiries.” -ECON104 Student
“Doing example exercises during class to ensure we understood the concept really helped. I enjoyed having in class work to do and going over it to check if we were accurately tracking what the concept meant. I also liked when she would ask us questions to keep us engaged and give us a chance to participate and check if we know what the meaning of some concepts and key words were.” -ECON103 Student
“Within the class, we did a ton of activities that would help our understanding of Economic Principles, which helped me understand them a lot more, rather than just reading. With that hands–on, I can remember those experiences with the topic.” -ECON103 Student
“This professor was amazing. She was so kind and wanted us to succeed. She was very helpful when answering questions and made sure to let anyone answer questions.” -ECON103 Student