Dr. Andrew Chamberlain

Dr. Andrew Chamberlain is Chief Economist at Glassdoor. He is an applied labor microeconomist specializing in the econometrics and data science of online review platforms. At Glassdoor, he works closely with the company's data science team to provide analysis of labor market trends and build models in SQL-Hive-R-Python from crowdsourced online data. His research has examined the use of incentives to correct bias in online reviews, the presence of wage premiums among public-sector workers, the microeconomics of job search and hiring processes, the effect of liquor availability on urban crime, and a variety of other applied microeconomic issues.

Chamberlain’s work has been cited in U.S. congressional testimony, OECD working papers, 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, USA Today, Reuters, The Economist, Newsweek and various academic journals. He has appeared as a live television guest on MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business and many others, as well as NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace" radio programs, and has been named as one of the "101 most influential people in the world of work, management and career."

Previously, Chamberlain served as an economist in Washington, D.C. at the Tax Foundation and the Cato Institute. While in Washington, he briefed both Democratic and Republican congressional staff on his research as well as analysts at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and various think tanks. In 2008 he founded Columbia Economics, L.L.C., an economic consulting firm specializing in taxation and energy policy based in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Chamberlain has served as an instructor and teaching assistant at the University of California, San Diego, where he received four consecutive departmental teaching awards.

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. A Seattle native, he has B.A. degrees in economics (cum laude) and business administration (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington in Seattle.