I'm Garret Christensen. I received my economics PhD from UC Berkeley in 2011. I am presently a Senior Research Economist with the FDIC. Before that I worked for the Census Bureau, and I was a project scientist with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences and a Data Science Fellow with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
I am doing a limited job search. I will be at the 2025 ASSA Meeeting.
Select Working Papers
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"The Long-Run Effects of Parental Homeownership and Housing Quality on Later Life Outcomes" with John Voorheis. Available upon request.
Research in Progress
- "First Financial Footsteps: Parental Transmission of Bank Account Ownership" with Connor Redpath
- "Bank Branching, Low-Income Lending, and the Household Finance of Economically Vulnerable Populations" with Justin Gallagher
Book
- Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research, with Ted Miguel and Jeremy Freese. UC Press, 2019.
Recent Published Papers
- "Survey of open science practices and attitudes in the social sciences" with Joel Ferguson, Rebecca Littman, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Nicholas Swanson, Zenan Wang, Edward Miguel, David Birke, and John-Henry Pessuto. Nature Communications Vol 14, Article number: 5401 (2023).
- "Local Food Prices and the Purchasing Power of SNAP Benefits" with Erin Bronchetti. Food Policy Vol 95. August 2020: 101937 [Ungated]
- "Research Transparency is on the Rise in Economics" with Nicholas Swanson, Rebecca Littman, David Birke, Edward Miguel, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, and Zenan Wang. AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 110, pp. 61-65. May 2020.
- "A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment" with Allan Dafoe, Edward Miguel, Don A. Moore, and Andrew K. Rose. 18 December 2019. PLOS One.
- "Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health" [Ungated] with Erin Bronchetti and Hilary Hoynes. December 2019. Journal of Health Economics. (Also see data visualization.)
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