Economic Measurement Research Institute - Research Projects

John C. Haltiwanger is the Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the measurement of employment dynamics and business creation using data that links firms and their workers.

Ron S. Jarmin is the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the US Census Bureau.  He previously served as the Chief of the Center for Economic Statistics. His research interests include entrepreneurship and business dynamics, industrial organization, and the measurement of technology and firm performance. 

Matthew Shapiro is a Professor of Economics and a Research Professor at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.  His interests range widely in applied macroeconomics and the use of administrative data resources to study economic behavior and improve the quality of national economic statistics. He is the past chair of both the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Statistics and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee.

Michael Cafarella is a Principal Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interests include database systems, information extraction, knowledge graphs, data systems for causal reasoning, and applying data-intensive methods to economics.

Gabriel Ehrlich is the Director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan, where he oversees an active program of economic forecasting. His research focuses on macroeconomics, urban economics, and economic measurement.

David Johnson is the Executive Director of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth and an Adjunct Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.  He previously served as a senior program officer at the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Katharine G. Abraham is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. Her research ranges widely in labor economics, including labor market decisions of older Americans, the impact of government policies on labor markets, and the measurement of economic activity.

Andrew Garin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.  His research focuses on labor and public economics, and he is particularly interested in the evolution of the US labor market and the role of technological change and other factors in changing the nature of work.

Dmitri Koustas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research spans labor economics, public economics, and macroeconomics, focusing on questions related to the “future of work” and household finance. A key area of his research involves measuring and understanding household participation in alternative work arrangements such as the gig economy.

Janice Eberly is the James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  She has a broad research agenda on firm investment and financing, including the effects of uncertainty, innovation, human capital, and intangible capital.

James Traina is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NYU Stern Abu Dhabi. His research sits at the intersection of productivity, industrial organization, and corporate finance, examining how competition and technological change shape firm behavior.