Macroeconomics Research Assistant
Portland, Oregon, United States
Supervised by Professor Tristan Nighswander, Ph.D., University of Oregon- Compiled detailed article summaries on the impacts of discount rate heterogeneity on retirement wealth in America - Analyzed raw Survey of Consumer Finance data, applied appropriate weighting scheme, and replicated published statistics to confirm accuracy of approach - Aided in the compilation of a city level inflation dataset from 50 years of quarterly price data in hundreds of US cities - Reviewed proposed course material and assisted with syllabus design for upper level economics courses