Jeffrey A. Levy
Keller Center Office 3101
1307 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637
I am an economist and assistant instructional professor in public policy focusing on the intersection of data science and social science. My research focuses on macroeconomics and economic uncertainty, particularly the causes and impacts of economic uncertainty on the real economy, following a long line of economists from Keynes, Knight, Bernanke, Romer and more recently, Alexopoulos and Cohen, and Baker, Bloom and Davis. I am also pursuing research on pedagogy and prediction using machine learning techniques.
In the classroom I have experience teaching priniciples of economics courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. My recent focus has been on teaching research methods courses that introduce programming and data analytics to students, particularly using Python and R. I also have extensive experience teaching applied machine learning to students in public policy and social science.
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| Oct 03, 2025 |  Thanks to everyone at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Illinois for hosting me to run a workshop on using ML in social science! I enjoyed meeting all of the students and faculty. |
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| Sep 29, 2025 |  The start of another quarter of Machine Learning for Public Policy at Harris - looking forward to seeing all of the second year MPPs again. |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Welcome to Data and Programming for the Harris 1st-year MPP students! Time to start your Python journey. |
| Dec 30, 2024 |  Now wrapping up my third trip to teach public policy and data analysis to outstanding groups of students in Saudi Arabia! |
| Sep 08, 2023 |  We presented our new paper on the causal effects of economic uncertainty at the SITE 2023 conference. It was great to visit Stanford and hear the latest on uncertainty research! |