Kate Harwood

I am an Assistant Professor of Economic Development in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  I graduated in May 2024 with a PhD in Public Policy from New York University where I was also a Doctoral Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.  I spent the 2023 summer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for an American Economic Association Summer Economics Fellowship.  

My research interests include urban economics, housing policy and public economics.  I am particularly interested in how these fields intersect with the increasingly pressing issues of climate change and social inequality.  My job market paper examines the impact of natural disasters on rental markets and the role of government rental subsidies in the wake of such events.

Prior to starting at NYU I was a Senior Analyst at Abt Associates. I earned an MS in Economics from Tufts University and a BA in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Miami.