Applied economist and builder.
I write at Money, Math, and Muscle
- pandemic-ui-card-data: can public card data see the spending drop from ending pandemic unemployment benefits early? Staggered difference-in-differences across 48 states, 140 border-county pairs, randomization inference, minimum detectable effects, and an audit folder with Monte Carlo tests and an independent re-implementation. Companion to this post.
- vranand1.github.io: the blog, including the analysis code behind each post.
Python, SQL, dbt, Databricks, LangChain and LangGraph, OpenAI and Gemini APIs, Claude Code, Google Cloud; Causal Inference - Experiments and Quasi Experiments; Excel for the models that have to be reviewed by people who do not read code.
