Assistant Professor of Economics
Dept. of Economics - American University
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Course: Incentives and Regulations

 
Tom Hertz is an applied microeconomist, with research in labour, health, education, and agriculture, as well as econometric methods. He received his AB in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and then an MA degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 2001 he accepted a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, in the Center for Health and Wellbeing. He has been an assistant professor of economics at American University since 2002.

Professor Hertz currently serves as a member of the Core Team of the Rockefeller Project on Economic Security, a multi-year effort to quantify and understand the determinants of economic vulnerability in the United States.

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