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.

Her primary research interests are at the intersection of poverty and space --the conditions and fortunes of poor neighborhoods and those who live in them.  Her current research includes work on a variety of affordable housing topics, from whether the Low Income Tax Credit contributes to increased economic and racial segregation, to whether the presence of housing voucher households contributes to neighborhood crime rates.   Recent work also includes 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 Reinvestment Fund, the advisory board for NYUs McSilver Instute for Poverty Policy and Research, and the editorial board for the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.











Contact Details

katherine.oregan@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7498
295 Lafayette Street, Room 3050
Office Hours: 4:00-5:00 pm Mondays and by appointment
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  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Housing & Community Development
  • Inequality
  • Policy Analysis
  • Poverty
  • Race, Class, & Diversity
  • Social Policy
  • Urban Policy

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