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Lei Ma

Assistant Professor of Real Estate
University of Georgia
Terry College of Business

lei.ma@uga.edu


About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business. I received my Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 2025.

I work on questions in housing, urban economics, and household finance using tools from empirical industrial organization and applied micro. Please feel free to reach out anytime if you’d like to discuss research. You can view my CV here.

Research

Working Papers



Work in Progress

  1. The Impact of Parenthood on the Financial Well-Being of Families

  2. Housing Inequality in the United States

Teaching

Service