Senior Lecturer About Paula Worthington Paula R. Worthington is a Senior Lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where she also serves as academic director of the School’s Policy Labs program and faculty lead on its MPP program. At Harris, Worthington teaches courses in state and local government and cost-benefit analysis and advises students completing applied projects for public and nonprofit sector clients. She is consistently recognized for excellence in teaching, having received nine teaching awards since joining Harris in 2004. While on leave from Harris in 2017-2018, Worthington served as senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C., where she prepared research, policy analysis, and written materials in multiple policy domains to help fulfill the Council’s objective of providing high quality, objective economic analysis to the Executive Office of the President. Worthington’s interests are in state and municipal fiscal policies, and she is actively involved with efforts related to good governance and responsible financial policies at Harris’s Center for Municipal Finance and local civic organizations such as the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago. She is a member and former chair of the MPC’s Regional Planning and Investments Committee and is also a member of the state of Illinois’s Budgeting for Results Commission. Worthington received her PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 1988. She has served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a research officer, economic advisor, and senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and has published articles in academic journals and Federal Reserve publications. Immediately prior to joining the Harris School, Worthington taught as a lecturer in the economics department at Northwestern University. Contact Information Room 2051 773.702.4025 pworthington@uchicago.edu Curriculum Vitae Personal Website Recent News More news Student profile: Sohyun Lim, MPP Class of 2025 Thu., April 18, 2024 Q&A: Kim Wolske On How to Make Solar Panels More Accessible Thu., April 18, 2024 Climate change may cost $38 trillion a year by 2049, study says Thu., April 18, 2024 Upcoming Events More events Ask Admissions: SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Challenge Program for High School Students Mon., April 22, 2024 | 8:00 AM Ask Admissions: Credential Programs Mon., April 22, 2024 | 9:00 PM Ask Admissions: Credential Programs Tue., April 23, 2024 | 7:00 AM
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