Nazanin Khazra

Research

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Khazra Research Lab

The Khazra Research Lab (K.R.L.) for Applied Economics and Data Science is a research lab at the University of Toronto where undergraduate, MA, and PhD students work as research assistants on applied projects and present their findings at the lab's monthly seminars. Current projects include homelessness in Toronto, using City of Toronto shelter data, and the pass-through of taxes on menstrual products, supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2026–2028).

Working Papers

Does Airbnb Reduce Matching Frictions in the Housing Market?

with Abdollah Farhoodi and Peter Christensen

Draft: 2023

Heterogeneities in the House Price Elasticity of Consumption

Draft: November 2019

Publications

Facilitating Scaffolding and Team Projects in Non-Computer Science Courses with GitHub Classroom

Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository, University of Central Florida, 2023

Work in Progress

Emergence of Tech-Econ: Teaching Machine Learning and Big-Data Skills to Economics Students

Draft: 2021

Investment Decisions Based on Profit Status: Evidence from Hospitals

Draft: 2018