Labor Econ students at UCM making their group presentations, Spring 2017

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Summer 2025:
ECON140 Labor Economics-- see CatCourses for full schedule
Independent Study ECON195-- ongoing, please contact me if interested in gaining research experience

Fall 2025:
ECON143 Economics of Crime and Policing-- see CatCourses for further information


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Previous Teaching:
UC Merced
2015-2024
ECON100 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
Freshman Seminar Econ of Immigration
ECON204 Graduate Economic History
ECON296 Professional Seminar
ECON112 GIS for World Economic History
ECON140 Labor Economics
ECON121 Economics of Money and Banking
​ECON143 Economics of Crime and Policing

Trinity College Dublin
2014: Natural Experiments in Economic History

Queen's University, Belfast
2014: Market Theory for Non-Economists
2014: Financial Institutions

University of Essex
2012-2013: Financial Innovations and Monetary Policy
2011-2013: International Trade Institutions and Policy

University of California, Davis
Instructor, Summer 2009: American Economic History before the Civil War
Teaching Assistant, 2005-2009: Introduction to Microeconomics; Introduction to Macroeconomics; Economic Development; American Economic History before and after the Civil War; World Economic History; Labor Economics

California State University, East Bay
Instructor, Summer 2008: Principles of Macroeconomics