Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's research interests include consumer & corporate finance, applied econometrics, and social networks. His current work focuses on consumer debt, with an eye towards questions of racial, ethnic and gender disparities. He also does work as an applied econometrician, examining methods commonly used by empirical researchers. These include questions of causal inference as well as applying machine learning techniques to economic questions. Before joining Yale, Paul was a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.