Academic CV:
Basics
| Name | Jeffrey A. Levy |
| Label | PhD Economist |
| levyjeff@uchicago.edu | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/levyjeff/ | |
| Summary | An applied economist focusing on macroeconomics, uncertainty, machine learning, and the intersection of social science and data science. |
Work Experience
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2026.08 - current East Lansing, MI
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Michigan State University, Department of Economics
Instructional faculty focusing primarily on macroeconomics.
- Principles
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
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2019.04 - 2026.08 Chicago, IL
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
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2016.06 - 2019.04 Washington, DC
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
Professional Memberships
- American Economic Association — Member (2021–present)
Active member participating in annual meetings and elections.
- Python Software Foundation — Member (2018–present)
Voting member for the organization that maintains and grows the Python programming language.
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python - advanced | |
| R - high | |
| Stata - proficient | |
| MATLAB - proficient | |
| Power BI - proficient | |
| SQL - basic | |
| Apache Spark - basic |