TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Davis
- Instructor of record: Game Theory
- Teaching Assistant (PhD course): Game Theory
- Teaching Assistant (Undergraduate courses): Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Introduction to Econometrics, Public Finance, American Economic History, Principles of Macroeconomics
- Teaching Assistant (MBA courses): Managerial Economics (received Best TA award), Information Economics
TEACHING CASES AND RESOURCES
Teacher Incentives (with Tarun Jain), Harvard Business Publishing (Education), 2018
[Publication]
Every manager faces the problem of motivating employees to work hard at their jobs. In the absence of strong intrinsic motivations to work or close monitoring by managers, employees tend to shirk -- a phenomenon that economists call "moral hazard". One way to address this problem is to pay workers based on their performance, such as payment based on the number of items she sells. However, moral hazard is harder to overcome when the worker's effort is not easily observable, such as in teaching. Using several policy experiments conducted with teachers in India, Kenya, and the United States, this case study explores how to motivate school teachers to turn up for class, teach well, and maximize effort in educating students.
[Publication]
Every manager faces the problem of motivating employees to work hard at their jobs. In the absence of strong intrinsic motivations to work or close monitoring by managers, employees tend to shirk -- a phenomenon that economists call "moral hazard". One way to address this problem is to pay workers based on their performance, such as payment based on the number of items she sells. However, moral hazard is harder to overcome when the worker's effort is not easily observable, such as in teaching. Using several policy experiments conducted with teachers in India, Kenya, and the United States, this case study explores how to motivate school teachers to turn up for class, teach well, and maximize effort in educating students.
A Guide to Paper-less Grading: Canvas and Gradescope
[Workshop Slides]
Teaching Assistants and Graders are often time-constrained to manage, grade, and summarize hundreds of student assessments within a few days. Grading online using tools such as Gradescope and Canvas can improve efficiency and transparency for both graders and students. I wrote this guide to introduce and summarize these grading tools as part of a workshop on "How to Teach Economics" offered to first-year PhD students in economics at UC Davis.
