About Andrew

Andrew Chamberlain is an applied economist and data scientist specializing in labor markets, causal inference, and the application of machine learning and experimentation to tech marketplaces.

Previously he served as Chief Economist and VP of Analytics at Sequoia, and as Head of Product Analytics at Udemy. At Udemy, he led a 17-person data science team responsible for the company’s experimentation system, marketplace pricing algorithm, causal inference, dashboarding, and product data science. Previously he served as Director of Product, Machine Learning and as Chief Economist at Glassdoor, where he founded the company’s Economic Research team in 2014 and served as a leader for 8 years.

As an economist, Andrew’s academic research has examined the use of incentives to correct bias in online reviews, the presence of wage premiums among public-sector workers, the causal effect of liquor availability on crime, the impact of federal grants on tax policy, the distributional impact of climate policies, the microeconomics of job search and hiring, the presence of gender pay gaps in online data, and a variety of other topics.

Andrew has testified about his research before the U.S. Congress, and his work has been widely cited in academic research, a popular introductory economics textbook, and has been published in or featured by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Atlantic, USA Today, Reuters, and various academic journals. He has appeared as a live television guest on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business and many others, as well as NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace" radio programs. In 2008 he founded Columbia Economics, LLC, a boutique data science and economic research consultancy. In 2017 he was named by the careers site The Ladders as one of the "101 most influential people in the world of work, management and career." In 2020, he was nominated to serve as a member of the Global Future Council on the New Agenda for Equity and Social Justice at the World Economic Forum.

Andrew received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego where he received four consecutive teaching awards for excellence in undergraduate instruction. A Seattle native, Andrew earned B.A. degrees in both Economics and Business Administration from the University of Washington, Seattle.