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Katherine M. O'Regan
Associate Professor of Public Policy

Katherine O'Regan is Associate Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Public and Nonprofit Management and Analysis Program (PNP) at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University.  She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent ten years teaching at the Yale School of Management prior to joining the Wagner faculty in 2000. She teaches courses in microeconomics, poverty, program evaluation, and urban economics, and has received teaching awards from Berkeley, Yale, and NYU Wagner.

Her research focuses on issues and programs affecting the urban poor and the neighborhoods in which they live, including transportation problems and access to employment, concentrated poverty and social networks, and affordable housing.   She is currently working on a large project (with Ingrid Gould Ellen) examining neighborhood transitions over the past few decades, including possible broad causes (changes in federal housing policy, and changes in crime, in particular), and outcomes (including possible displacement, and improvements in neighborhood conditions).  Among others, she serves on the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the Nonprofit Association for Academic Centers, the editorial board for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the research advisory board for The Reinvestment Fund.











Contact Details

katherine.oregan@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7498
295 Lafayette Street, Room 3050
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm and by appointment
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Areas of Expertise

  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Housing & Community Development
  • Inequality
  • Poverty
  • Race, Class, & Diversity
  • Social Policy
  • Urban Policy

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