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Lei Ma

Ph.D. Candidate
Boston University
leim (at) bu.edu


About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Boston University. In Fall 2025, I will join the University of Georgia Terry College of Business as an Asssitant Professor of Real Estate in August 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