Matt Resseger

Matt Resseger is a Senior Economist at ITEP, where he began working in April 2024. Prior to joining ITEP, Matt served as Senior Economist at the Boston Planning and Development Agency, bringing economic analysis and modeling to planning and policy questions throughout the city. Matt’s work in Boston spanned research on the city’s housing and labor markets, economic and demographic projection modeling, and exploration of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the city’s economy and residents’ economic well-being.

Matt received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University where his dissertation focused on measuring the impact of zoning regulation on racial segregation. He has published work on urban inequality and the role of knowledge in urban agglomeration. Prior to graduate school, he worked at the Urban Institute where he assisted in the development of microsimulation models used in the evaluation of retirement policy.