Teaching Statement and Evaluations
Course Materials
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Slides
- Persuasion
- Empirical and theoretical work on persuasion, focusing mostly on political persuasion.
- Empirical section is appropriate for PhD students and advanced undergraduates; theoretical section is appropriate for PhD students.
- Exciting Topics in American Political Economy
- Fly-by overview of four topics: media, prejudice, polarization, and money in politics.
- Appropriate for undergraduate students.
- Natural Language Processing
- Fly-by overview of natural language processing.
- Appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students.
Problem Sets
- Modeling Project: Industrial Parks
- Open-ended modeling project on spatial equilibrium.
- Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD students.
- Modeling Project: Market for Drugs
- Open-ended modeling project touching on aggregating supply curves, time inconsistency, Pigouvian taxation, and evasion and enforcement of quantity and price restrictions.
- Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD students.
- Modeling Project: Airline Competition
- Open-ended modeling project on monopoly and duopoly.
- Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD students.
- Problem Set on Ideal Point Estimation and Topic Models (with Jesse Shapiro)
- Appropriate for PhD students and advanced undergraduates.
- Problem Set on Political Agency (with Jörg Spenkuch)
- Appropriate for PhD students and advanced undergraduates.
- Problem Set on Expressive/Strategic Voting and Close Election RDDs (with Vincent Pons)
- Appropriate for PhD students.