View Research by Author - Claudia Ayanna Sharygin

Claudia Ayanna Sharygin is a Research Associate at the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. Her research in the areas of real estate and urban economics focuses on the effects of housing market fluctuations on household financial decision making (including spending and investment decisions) and on household composition and family structure. She is also interested in the effects of household composition and family structure on individual financial decisions.

Claudia received an AB magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University in 2002, an M.Sc. in economics and philosophy from the London School of Economics in 2003, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. After receiving her Ph.D., Claudia spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at New York University?s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. During her tenure at Berkeley, Claudia was a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, and her research on house price uncertainty and housing investment received funding from Berkeley?s Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and the Institute of Business and Economic Research. Claudia also spent a summer conducting dissertation research at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. At NYU?s Furman Center, Claudia pursued research projects both with University faculty and researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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