Ryan Safner
Economist at U.S. Copyright Office
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Safner is an economist and data scientist who studies innovation, creativity, and economic growth, currently conducting policy-focused economic research at the U.S. Copyright Office. With about a decade of college teaching and research experience, he taught a broad suite of courses—routinely intermediate microeconomics and econometrics using R—and designed an original course on Economics of the Law. He publishes peer-reviewed work on the political economy of public goods, intellectual property, and technological change, and explores settings from Wikipedia and Kickstarter to blockchains and network theory. A committed open-source practitioner, he releases course materials and reproducible research via R, R Markdown, and GitHub and writes a weekly newsletter synthesizing his research for broader audiences. Known for turning technical analysis into clear, persuasive communication, he combines rigorous institutional economics training with practical experience guiding students and stakeholders through data-driven policy insights.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at University of ConnecticutPh.D, Economics, Ph.D, Economics at George Mason University
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Github Skills (9)
knitr6
rmarkdown6
xaringan6
beamer6
r6
react5
javascript5
economics3
econometrics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ryansafner/tradeF20
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
ryansafner/ECON480Fall2018
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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