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Thomas Davidoff

Assistant Professor
Haas Real Estate Group
1-510-643-1425
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Academic Status: On duty
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Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/davidoff
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/realestate
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, Harvard College, 1993
Masters in Public Affairs in Urban and Regional Planning, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1998
PhD, Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, 2002

Positions Held

At Haas since 2002
2002 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

External Service and Assignments

Advisor, Linden Labs, 2002-2005
Project Manager, Forest City Ratner Companies, 1993-1996

Current Research and Interests

Public Finance
Real Estate / Urban Economics

Selected Papers and Publications

Selection and Moral Hazard in the Reverse Mortgage Industry
Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly
Labor Income, Housing Prices and Homeownership (forthcoming - Journal of Urban Economics)
Annuities and Individual Welfare (Joint with Jeffrey Brown and Peter Diamond), American Economic Review
Income Sorting: Measurement and Decomposition (forthcoming - Journal of Urban Economics)
Optimal Commodity Taxation When Land and Structures Must Be Taxed at the Same Rate

Teaching

BCMBA 287 Real Estate Economics and Finance
MBA 280 / EWMBA 280 Real Estate Economics and Finance
MBA 201A Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
PHDBA289A-1 Doctoral Seminar in Real Estate
PHDBA289S-1 Research Seminar in Real Estate

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