Asha Shepard
Senior Lecturer
About
Dr. Asha Shepard is a Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary area of research lies in exploring the relationship between education policy and behavior—particularly for juveniles and young adults. He teaches a variety of topics including courses on Principles of Economics, Statistics, Quantitative Methods, and Econometrics.
- Arrested Development: Relative School Entry Age and Arrests During the Teenage and Young Adult Years. Education Economics, 32(3), June 2023, pp. 275–297
- Examining Persistent Effects of Extractive Institutions in the United States. Economics & Politics, 34(1), March 2022, pp. 142-170, with Liam Rose