Andrew Hanson
Professor and Department Head, Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate
Bielinski Family Faculty Scholar
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About
Andrew Hanson is a Professor and Department Head for the Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a Bielinski Family Faculty Scholar in the College of Business Administration. Dr. Hanson’s research interests are at the intersection of real estate, urban economics, and public finance. He studies a variety of topics, but focuses on Government Policy in Housing Markets, Discrimination in Housing and Mortgage Markets, and Urban Redevelopment. He recently developed a process to use correspondence experiments for the study of real estate markets, including for examining the treatment of clients with different gender, race, and ethnic backgrounds. Prior to joining the UIC faculty in 2019, Andrew held faculty positions at Marquette University and Georgia State University. Outside of academia, Dr. Hanson has worked in government at the Council of Economic Advisers, and as a consultant/contractor for the National Apartment Association, the National Association of Realtors, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Pew Charitable Trusts Fiscal Federalism Initiative. He has been interviewed and has had his work featured in many popular press outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Crain’s.
Selected Publications
- “Chinese Exclusion? Agent Response in the Market for Owner-Occupied Housing” Real Estate Economics, 52(5), 2024: 1340–1372 (with Zackary Hawley).
- “Local Employment Multipliers for Large Publicly Subsidized Firms: Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach” Journal of Regional Science, 64(2), 2024: 491–526 (with Shawn Rohlin).
- “Restricted Access: Real Estate Agent Response to Client Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Side of Market” Real Estate Economics, 51(4), 2023: 855–890 (with Zackary Hawley).
- “Split Rate Taxation and Business Establishment Location: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Experience” Public Finance Review, 50(6), 2022: 680–703.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Syracuse University, 2008
Fields: Public Finance, Urban Economics
B.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2003