Jaclene Begley


Jaclene Begley is a doctoral student at NYU Wagner and is a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Her areas of specialization are urban policy (poverty, subsidized housing, and housing finance), public policy, and research methods (applied econometrics and microeconomics). Jackie's research and teaching interests are in housing policy, urban policy, urban economics, real estate finance, community development, and applied statistics and econometrics.

Jackie spent the summer of 2010 as a doctoral researcher with the University of Hong Kong. Her research from this summer, with Paavo Monkkonen and Kelvin SK Wong, was recently published in Regional Science and Urban Economics. Currently, as a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, she is part of the Subsidized Housing Information Project (SHIP) with the affordable housing team, and "The Six Trillion Dollar Loss of Housing Wealth in the Great Recession: What are the Long-Term Consequences?" project with the housing finance and foreclosures team. She has also been a co-instructor for Real Estate Finance, and a tutor/ grader for Urban Economics at NYU Wagner.

Jackie received her master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and her undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame. At UC Berkeley, Jackie worked as a research assistant for the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a commercial real estate acquisitions analyst for the investment groups of Jones Lang LaSalle and RREEF/ Deutsche Bank. She also spent time at a nonprofit working on community development projects.