Profile
Garret Christensen is a Senior Financial 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
Publications
Garret Christensen et al. 2023. "Survey of Open Science Practices and Attitudes in the Social Sciences," Nature Communications. Vol. 14, 5401.
Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel. 2022. "Improving Research Transparency in the Social Sciences: Registration, Pre-registration, and Multiple Testing Adjustments," chapter in Research Integrity: Best Practices for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford University Press.
Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel. July 2020. "Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research," University of California Press.
Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel. 2020. "Transparency and Reproducibility: Conceptualizing the Problem," chapter in The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science. Cambridge University Press.
Garret Christensen and Erin Bronchetti. 2020. "Local Food Prices and the Purchasing Power of SNAP Benefits," Food Policy. Vol. 101937.
Garret Christensen et al. 2020. "Research Transparency is on the Rise in Economics," AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 110, 61-65.
Garret Christensen, Erin Bronchetti, and Hilary Hoynes. 2019. "Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health," Journal of Health Economics. Vol. 68, no. 102231.
Garret Christensen et al. 2019. "A Study of the Impact of Data Sharing on Article Citations Using Journal Policies as a Natural Experiment," PLOS One. Vol. 14, no. 102231.
Garret Christensen and Ted Miguel. 2018. "Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research," Journal of Economic Literature. Vol. 56, no. 3, 920-980.
Garret Christensen et al. 2018. "Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results," Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Vol. 23.
Garret Christensen. 2017. "Occupational Fatalities and the Labor Supply: Evidence from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 139, 182-195.
Garret Christensen. 2017. "Estimating the Effect of Soldier Deaths on the Military Labor Supply," chapter in The Practice of Reproducible Research, University of California Press.
Garret Christensen, Daniele Fanelli, and Justin McCrary. 2016. "Conservative Tests under Satisficing Models of Publication Bias," PLoS ONE. Vol. 11, no. 2.
Garret Christensen et al. 2015. "Promoting an Open Research Culture: Author Guidelines for Journals to Promote Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility," Science. Vol. 348, no. 6242, 1422-1425.
Garret Christensen et al. 2015. "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. Vol. 92, no. 2, 437-447.
Garret Christensen et al. 2015. "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. Vol. 3.8, no. 2, e003476.
Working Papers
Garret Christensen et al., "The Promises and Challenges of Linked Rent Data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and Housing and Urban Development."