Teaching assistant · University of Southern California
Microeconomic Theory II (Ph.D. core)
Spring 2025
Intuition · Models · Evidence
Teaching
I want students to ask economic questions, use theory to reason through them, and judge what the evidence can establish. My teaching connects intuition, models, and evidence to develop empirical judgment and research independence.
In the classroom
Teaching experience
Teaching assistant · University of Southern California
Principles of Microeconomics (undergraduate)
Fall 2022 and Fall 2024
Teaching assistant · University of Southern California
Economic Consulting and Applied Managerial Economics (undergraduate)
Spring 2023
In Microeconomic Theory II, I independently delivered a lecture on public goods and externalities and a review lecture. In Economic Consulting and Applied Managerial Economics, I guided student teams as they narrowed questions, analyzed data, and developed clear consulting reports and research proposals grounded in evidence.
Designed for future teaching
Curriculum
& materials
These courses and research labs form my designed teaching portfolio. They are plans and materials for future teaching.
Graduate curriculum; adaptable for undergraduates
Labor I
The first part of a two-semester labor sequence starts with workers’ decisions about employment, skills, and careers, connecting individual choices to wages, employment, and inequality.
Graduate curriculum; adaptable for undergraduates
Labor II
The firms, frictions, and institutions that shape workers’ opportunities. This course complements Labor I by examining the employer side of the labor market.
Graduate curriculum; adaptable for undergraduates
Applied empirical methods
Choosing comparisons, measuring economic outcomes, and assessing the assumptions behind an empirical argument. Readings and exercises would introduce new methods through recent labor research; labs connect reproducing a result to assessing a new research design.
Ph.D. curriculum
Special topics in labor economics
Modules in organizational economics and behavioral labor connect basic models to current research. Designed for full- or half-semester offerings, they culminate in a research memo proposing a question and a design to answer it.
Teaching approach
Lecture to
research lab
For the courses I have designed, research labs connect each lecture topic to a paper chosen for its economic question and empirical method. Students would reproduce a key result, then consider how the analysis would need to change to address a question of their own, explaining when the method is appropriate and where it falls short. Simulations complement this work by showing how economic mechanisms affect observable outcomes.
Undergraduate teaching
I am prepared to teach microeconomics, labor economics, and applied empirical methods. I would emphasize graphical reasoning and guided empirical work, helping students interpret evidence, assess policy and business decisions, and explain their reasoning in writing or a presentation.
Graduate teaching
I am prepared to teach graduate labor economics and applied empirical methods. At the Ph.D. level, I would emphasize formal assumptions, identification, and the judgment required to choose a research question and an appropriate method, with feedback on both the question and the design.