Garret Christensen
Senior Research Economist at Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolGarret Christensen is a PhD economist and senior research economist at the FDIC with 11 years of experience using causal inference and data science to study consumer finance, housing, labor, and social policy. His background includes applied research roles at the U.S. Census Bureau, UC Berkeley, and field trial design for large-scale development projects, giving him fluency across administrative data, randomized trials, and econometric methods. He blends academic rigor with policy-facing analysis, having supported transparency initiatives and taught econometrics and labor economics. Based in Washington, DC, he pairs technical depth with a stamina for long projects—both intellectual and literal, as an ultramarathoner—bringing persistence and meticulousness to complex empirical problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at UC Berkeley
Korean, German, English
Github Skills (30)
stable10
versioning10
kubernetes9
python9
version-control9
transparency8
git7
typescript7
jupyter-kernels6
bank6
causal6
github6
citations6
electron6
data-sharing5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garretchristensen/website
Sep 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
BITSS/NewDelhi2017
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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