Austin Tucker / Teaching
Econometrics,
taught through health
Four years of labs, problem sets, and case studies at Harvard — built so students estimate, not just read.
Featured / Interactive labs
Runs R
in browser
Econometrics for Health Policy — Interactive Modules
A module series that teaches econometrics through health problems — OLS, standard errors and clustering, inference, omitted variable bias, and panel data — with graded R exercises that run directly in the browser. No installation, no setup: open a module and start estimating.
Fig_T01 · OLS — residuals minimized
Featured tool
Health System Control Knobs
An interactive teaching tool built around the 'control knobs' framework from Getting Health Reform Right: turn the dials of financing, payment, organization, regulation, and behavior, and watch how health system outcomes respond. Built to give students an intuition that static slides can't.
Fig_T02 · Five knobs, one system
GHP 525 / 2021–2023
Teaching Fellow
Econometrics for Health Policy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The core econometrics sequence for health policy students — regression, causal inference, and applied methods taught through health applications. I built and ran the R labs, wrote problem sets and exam materials, and translated the theory into code students could actually run.
- R lab series: from R introduction through instrumental variables and regression discontinuity
- Problem sets with worked solutions (including synthetic control methods)
- Clustered standard errors simulation — why and when clustering matters, shown by simulation
- Midterm and exam materials with elaborated solutions
PHS 2000B / 2022–2024
Teaching Fellow
Quantitative Methods for Population Health Sciences
Harvard University (doctoral core)
The doctoral methods core for population health PhD students. I taught the causal inference toolkit — instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and interrupted time series — through hands-on labs.
- Instrumental variables lab (R Markdown walkthrough)
- Regression discontinuity problem set with solutions
- Difference-in-differences and interrupted time series labs
GENED 1063 / 2022–2024
Teaching Fellow → TF hiring & coordination
World Health: Challenges and Opportunities
Harvard College (Sue Goldie)
Harvard College's flagship global health course. I led discussion sections — including case studies like tuberculosis control in China — built section guides and teaching scripts, and later coordinated TF recruitment and hiring for the course.
- Section guides and slide decks (e.g., tuberculosis in China case study)
- Health systems video teaching script
- TF onboarding and hiring materials
Recognition
Students noticed. So did the Bok Center.
- Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, 2022, 2023, and 2024
- Media & Design Fellow, Derek Bok Center (2024–25)
- Pedagogy Fellow (2023–24)
- ID 100: Foundations for Public Health (~600 students)
3× Distinction
2022–24