Teaching

ECON 1333: Economics of Mental Health and Homelessness

Teaching Fellow under Matthew Basilico

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2025

This course explores how society shapes mental health and how mental health impacts the economy. Blending economic theory with behavioral science, it examines social drivers, empirical methods, and policy responses to mental illness—covering topics from homelessness to the opioid crisis, and the potential of wellbeing-centered economic policymaking. 

ECON 985: Senior Thesis Seminar

Semester: Fall & Spring

Offered: 2022-23, 2024-25

Workshop for seniors writing economics theses, taught in classes of approximately 12 students each. Emphasis on choice of research topics, methodology, and writing. Students are required to complete written and oral presentations of their work in progress. Part one of a two-part series; students must complete both terms of this course (parts A and B) within the same academic year in order to receive credit. This seminar is required for economics concentrators writing senior theses. Thesis writers in other concentrations writing on economics topics may take the seminar, space-permitting.

HKS Executive Education: Leading Smart Policy Design

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2023

Leading Smart Policy Design is an executive program for leaders and their teams charged with designing and delivering policies or programs that address social and economic problems around the world.  It provides practical framework for analysis and hands-on experience using this systematic and collaborative approach to theory- and datadriven innovation.

Economics 980x: Economics of Work and the Family

Teaching Fellow under Claudia Goldin

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2022

How are the most personal choices and life transitions decided? When and whom do you marry, how many children do you have, how much education should you obtain, and which careers or jobs will you pursue? Much will be explored in terms of change over time, particularly concerning the economic emergence of women and the growing role of government. Readings draw on economic theory, empirical analyses, history, and literature from the 19th century to the present.