Applied Economics, Policy Analysis, and Market Research.

Nathan D.

My name is Nathan D. I am a PhD student in Economics, currently in progress at the University of Kansas, a Master's student in Economics at Kansas State University, and a Bachelor of Economics student (University of Massachusetts). My scholarly output focuses on econometric modeling and financial stability in the region, closely tied to my teaching foundation. During my time at the University of Kansas, I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in two courses: an undergraduate econometrics lab with 65 students and an introductory macroeconomics course with 120 students. In both environments, I developed a curriculum based on actual banking data, translated Federal Reserve mechanics into prose, and quickly discovered that simplicity is more important than complexity when a learner becomes stuck.

I have worked in professional economics for at least 10 years, starting as a Quantitative Finance Associate at Almena State Bank and then as a Senior Economic Strategy Analyst at Heartland Tri-State Bank, where I developed forecasting models, audited variance reports, and tested automated financial systems for logical consistency. It is that academic depth that influences my tutoring practice. I do not just teach formulas. I demonstrate to students how the reasoning works and why it fails. I work best with college- and graduate-level students in economics, statistics, quantitative finance, and data analysis, using programs such as STATA, R, and Python. I am patient, direct, and base my approach on real examples. Learners do not go away with answers but with knowledge.