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Basics

Name Jeffrey A. Levy
Label PhD Economist
Email levyjeff@uchicago.edu
Url https://levyjeff.github.io/
Summary An applied economist focusing on macroeconomics, uncertainty, machine learning, and the intersection of social science and data science.

Work Experience

  • 2019.04 - Current
    Assistant Instructional Professor
    Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
    Instructional faculty focusing on data and programming and machine learning, as well as instruction in Python and R. I also organize professional development workshops and events for students.
    • Public Policy
    • Data Analysis
    • Machine Learning
  • 2016.06 - 2019.04
    Data Scientist
    Urban Institute
    Member of Urban's research programming team, where I joined a variety of research centers to enable research that required advanced programming, machine learning, and technical skills.
    • Data Science
    • Python

Education

  • 2012.09 - 2020.12

    Washington, DC

    PhD
    American University
    Economics
    • Monetary Economics
  • 2008.09 - 2010.05

    East Lansing, MI

    BA
    Michigan State University
    Economics, Political Science

Professional Memberships

Skills

Programming
Python - advanced
R - high
Stata - proficient
MATLAB - proficient
Power BI - proficient
SQL - basic
Apache Spark - basic

References

Dr. Ryan Kellogg
Deputy Dean for Academic Programs and Faculty Director, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Contact: kelloggr@uchicago.edu
Dr. Xuguang Simon Sheng
Economics Department Chair, American University. Co-author, and formerly my dissertation committee chair. Contact: sheng@american.edu
Dr. Gabriel Mathy
Associate Professor, American University Department of Economics. Co-author, and formerly a member of my dissertation committee. Contact: mathy@american.edu
Jessica Kelly
Senior Director, Research and Web Technology, Urban Institute. Formerly my supervisor as a data scientist. Contact: jkelly@urban.org