Teaching
In every course the aim is the same: to help students use evidence to judge whether a policy or a market works as intended.
I teach microeconomics and health economics to undergraduates and applied microeconomic analysis to M.A. students at Cal State LA, chair M.A. theses, and coordinate the College’s Financial Wellness Program.
Courses at Cal State LA
ECON 2010 Undergraduate
Principles of Microeconomics
The basic tools of economic analysis: supply and demand, prices and output, market structures, and the effects of trade.
Fall 2022 to present
ECON 4800 Undergraduate
Economics of Health Care
Economic theory and evidence applied to health and health care, starting with how the U.S. health care system works.
Spring 2023, 2024, and 2025
ECON 4110 Undergraduate
Market Structure Economics
Managerial economics: how firms set prices and output under different market structures, from competition to oligopoly.
Fall 2026
ECON 5100 M.A.
Applied Microeconomic Analysis
Research design and causal inference in applied microeconomics, learned through close reading of research papers.
Fall 2022, 2023, and 2024; Spring 2026
Graduate advising
M.A. theses
I chair M.A. theses in Economics and serve as Faculty Advisor for the M.A. program. Currently supervising: Sabrina Pirzada, Miguel Landeros, and Andriana Parisi.
- Jonathan Oliver 2026Housing Affordability for Young Americans in Southern California
- Kelsey Mitchell 2026Suicide Rates and the Timeline of Welfare Payments
- Daniel Robleto 2025Macroeconomics and Video Games
- Silvi Ashak 2025The Economic Impact of Immigrant Labor on U.S. Growth: A Sectoral Analysis
- Sofia Bustillo 2025Leisure Education: A Narrative on Time Allocation and Leisure Trends
- Luis Monterrosa 2024Labor Force Participation Rate Decline Among Working-Age Males in the United States
- Alan Gomez 2024The Economics of Obesity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Public Health Crisis
- Michael Fernandez 2023, co-advisedIndigenous Socioeconomic Status and Health Coverage in Southern California: A Comparison to Other Racial and Ethnic Groups
For students
Financial Wellness Program
Free, non-credit workshops on the money decisions students are already making: budgeting, debt and credit, investing, insurance, taxes and leases. Sessions are open to every major, nothing is graded, and each is held in person and on Zoom. I have coordinated the program since Fall 2024.
45+
students in the 2025–26 spring certificate series
20–25
students at each session
70%+
of spring participants came back for more than one session
9.0
out of 10: average rating when asked whether they would recommend it to a friend
Program page: fall workshops, materials, and how to lead a session →
Earlier teaching
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2021–2022): Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
University of Hartford (2019–2021): Managerial Economics; Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
University of New Hampshire (2014–2018): teaching assistant for graduate courses in econometrics, microeconomic theory, mathematics for economists, and environmental valuation, and for MBA managerial economics.
Teaching development
Cognate in College Teaching, University of New Hampshire (2021): college teaching, teaching with writing, cognition and learning, and classroom assessment.
Quality Matters Certificate of Course Recognition for Principles of Microeconomics (2025).
