Christine Wen

Christine Wen is an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, specializing in urban economics and municipal finance. Prior to joining TMU, she taught at University of Calgary and Texas A&M University. Her recent publications on how business tax incentives affect adequate and equitable school funding stemmed from previous work at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. called Good Jobs First, which mostly investigated transparency issues in public disclosures of state and local economic development tax abatements. Christine holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Princeton, Columbia, and Cornell Universities, respectively, with her doctoral dissertation examining urbanization outcomes in smaller Chinese cities at the household and community level.