Assistant Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs

Expertise:Housing affordability, geographic distributional consequences of changes in housing supply and costs, large-scale administrative data and economic theory, patterns of residential mobility

Career Highlights: 

Valentine Gilbert earned his Ph.D. in public policy with a specialty in economics from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Before his doctoral studies, he was a researcher at the University of Chicago Crime Lab in New York and received a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Gilbert teaches economics and policy analysis and theory and practice courses to undergraduate students interested in public policy. In addition, he brings a research focus on urban and public economics, specifically on housing affordability and understanding the geographic and distributional consequences of changes in housing supply and costs. In a job market paper, he used large-scale administrative data and economic theory to understand what the pattern of residential mobility between housing sub-markets reveals about the price and welfare effects of new housing construction.