Garret Christensen is a Senior Research Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection. His research interests include housing and consumer finance, poverty programs, and meta-science and reproducibility. Before joining the FDIC, Garret was an Economist with the US Census Bureau, a staff researcher with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), and a data science fellow with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). He also taught economics at Swarthmore College and conducted water, sanitation, and hygiene research in western Kenya. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Topics
Fair Housing; Mortgage Lending; Consumer Finance; Research Transparency and Reproducibility
Survey of Open Science Practices and Attitudes in the Social Sciences
Nature Communications, Volume 14, Article 5401 (2023)
Joel Ferguson, Rebecca Littman, Garret Christensen, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Nicholas Swanson, Zenan Wang, Edward Miguel, David Birke, and John-Henry Pezzuto
Improving Research Transparency in the Social Sciences: Registration, Preregistration, and Multiple Testing Adjustments
Chapter in Research Integrity: Best Practices for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford University Press (2022): 36–69
Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel
Transparency and Reproducibility: Conceptualizing the Problem
Chapter in The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press (2020): 129-164
Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel
Local Food Prices and the Purchasing Power of SNAP Benefits
Food Policy, Volume 95, Article 101937 (2020)
Garret Christensen and Erin Todd Bronchetti
Research Transparency Is on the Rise in Economics
AEA Papers and Proceedings, Volume 110 (2020): 61-65
Nicholas Swanson, Garret Christensen, Rebecca Littman, David Birke, Edward Miguel, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, and Zenan Wang
Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research
University of California Press (2019)
Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel
Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health
Journal of Health Economics, Volume 68, Article 102231 (2019)
Erin T. Bronchetti, Garret Christensen, and Hilary W. Hoynes
A Study of the Impact of Data Sharing on Article Citations Using Journal Policies as a Natural Experiment
PLOS One, Volume 14, Issue 12 (2019)
Garret Christensen, Allan Dafoe, Edward Miguel, Don A. Moore, and Andrew K. Rose
Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research
Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 56, Issue 3 (2018): 920-980
Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel
Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Volume 1, Issue 3 (2018): 337-356
Garret Christensen et al.
Occupational Fatalities and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 139 (2017): 182-195
Garret Christensen
Estimating the Effect of Soldier Deaths on the Military Labor Supply
Chapter in The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences, University of California Press (2017)
Garret Christensen
Conservative Tests under Satisficing Models of Publication Bias
PLOS One, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2016)
Justin McCrary, Garret Christensen, and Daniele Fanelli
Promoting an Open Research Culture: Author Guidelines for Journals to Promote Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility
Science, Volume 348, Issue 6242 (2015): 1422-1425
Garret Christensen et al.
Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials to Evaluate Adoption of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions and Their Combination in Rural Western Kenya
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 92, Issue 2 (2015): 437-447
Garret Christensen, Holly N. Dentz, Amy J. Pickering, Tomoé Bourdier, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford Jr, and Clair Null
Cluster-randomised Controlled Trials of Individual and Combined Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Nutritional Interventions in Rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits Study Design and Rationale
BMJ Open, Volume 3, Issue 8 (2013)
Garret Christensen et al.
