Scott Spitze
Senior Economist at The Burning Glass Institute
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Spitze is a Senior Economist at the Burning Glass Institute with a decade of experience studying how firms hire and workers find jobs, specializing in measurement of credential and program value. He leads client-focused research translating policy and business questions into actionable analyses, including a system-wide ROI study of the UNC system and the creation of the Credential Value Index—the largest independent measure of non-degree credential quality. Scott combines rigorous administrative- and transaction-level data work with practical tooling (including an R package for Snowflake) to track career pathways, wage gains, and labor market supply-demand dynamics. He supervises research teams, ensuring analytic quality and real-world relevance, and brings a PhD in Economics plus a track record of turning complex worker-outcome questions into policy-relevant evidence.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at University of Georgia - Terry College of BusinessBachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Arts - MA, Economics, Master of Arts - MA, Economics at University of Iowa
Github Skills (12)
r7
python5
grammar5
data-visualisation4
quantitative4
economics4
matching3
data-visualization3
tidymodels3
tidy3
react2
inference1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spspitze/Outsourcing
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Code for my Outsourcing Project (JMP).
Contributions:4 PRs, 59 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
javajmpoutsourcing
spspitze/spspitze.github.io
Dec 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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