Rebecca Lessem

Assistant Professor of Economics at Tepper School of Business

Schools

  • Tepper School of Business

Links

Biography

Tepper School of Business

PHONE

412-268-6903

OFFICE

GSIA - Tepper School of Business - Room 323

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Economics

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ph D (Economics) - 2011
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MA (Economics) - 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - BS (Economics and Political Science) - 2005

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Labor economics, applied microeconomics

USEFUL LINKS

PUBLICATIONS

  • Local Economic Growth from Primary Election Spending

(author(s): Rebecca Lessem, Carly Urban)

  • The Political Orientation of Newspaper Endorsements in U.S. Elections

(author(s): Rebecca Lessem, James Snyder, Stephen Ansolabehere) Quarterly Journal of Political Science 1(4), 2006; 393-404

WORKING PAPERS

  • Immigrant Wages and Recessions: Evidence from Undocumented Mexicans

(author(s): Rebecca Lessem, Kayuna Nakajima)

  • Mexico-U.S. Immigration: Effects of Wages and Border Enforcement

  • Decomposing the Native Immigrant Wage Gap in the United States

(author(s): Rebecca Lessem, Carl Sanders)

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison - Christensen Award in Empirical Economics (2010)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

  • Undergraduate Economics Curriculum Committee, Committee Member (2012 - )
  • Economics Recruiting, Committee Member (2014 - 2015)
  • Economics Recruiting, Committee Member (2013 - 2014)
  • Economics Recruiting, Committee Member (2012 - 2013)
  • Economics Recruiting, Committee Member (2011 - 2012)

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Adv''d Econ Analysis II (Adv''d Econometrics) (47902) -2147483648 Mini 4 Section: A
    2014 Mini 4 Section: A

  • REGRESSION ANALYSIS (70208) 2015 Section: 1, 2

  • SENIOR PROJECT (73497) 2014 Section: A
    2013 Section: A

  • DEVELOPMENT ECONOMCS (73394) 2013 Section: A

  • Development Economics (73394) 2012 Section: A
    2011 Section: A

  • Senior Project (73497) 2012 Section: A

  • Public Economics (73352) 2012 Section: A

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