Andrew Garin
Associate Professor of Economics, Heinz College
Andrew Garin is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College. His research lies at the intersection of labor economics and public economics. Garin studies how the structure of labor markets determines who bears the benefit or burden of changes in policy or economic structure. Garin is particularly interested in the future of work and how policy might best adapt to promote opportunity in 21st-century labor markets.
Garin completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2018. Garin's dissertation was awarded the first-place prize for the W.E. Upjohn Institute's 2018 Dissertation Award, which recognizes "the best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues." Garin previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.