Todd Sinai

Education

• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997; BA, Yale University, 1992

Academic Positions Held

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• July 1, 2014 — present: Professor of Real Estate and Business Economics and Public Policy (with tenure)
• July 1, 2019-present; Chairperson, Real Estate Department
• 2010–2014: Associate Professor of Real Estate and Business Economics and Public Policy (with tenure)
• 2005–2010: Associate Professor of Real Estate (with tenure)
• 2000–2005: Abraham Mitchell Term Assistant Professor of Real Estate
• 1997–2000: Assistant Professor of Real Estate

Other Positions

• Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999-present
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2011
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2000-2003, 2009, 2012

Professional Leadership

• Co-organizer,”Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis” conference and volume
• Co-organizer, Public Policy and Real Estate sessions at NBER, 1999-present
• Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Economics (2009-present)
• Editorial Board, Real Estate Economics (2007-present)

Awards and Honors

• Wharton Teaching Excellence Reward Recipient, 2018
• Edwin S. Mills Best Paper Award for the best paper in Real Estate Economics, 2004
• Housing and Urban Development (HUD)/AREUEA best paper in housing and urban development at the Annual AREUEA Conferences, 2001