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Lindsey Currier

Incoming Assistant Professor, School of Government and Policy

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  • Hopkins Bloomberg Center
    555 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    Washington, DC

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  • Faculty

Education

  • Ph.D. Economics , Harvard University
  • B.A. (Honors) Economics , University of Chicago
  • B.S. Mathematics , University of Chicago

Lindsey Currier received her PhD in Economics at Harvard University. Currier’s research focuses on urban economics, industrial organization, and public economics, with a particular interest in transportation and infrastructure.

Her work has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Currier previously worked as a Data Scientist at Uber and earned dual degrees in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Currier will join the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Booth School of Business in AY 2026–27, and then join the Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy as an Assistant Professor beginning in AY 2027

  1. Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students

    Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students

    Urban mobility is positively correlated with home neighborhood characteristics such as distance from the urban core, car ownership and social capital.

    01.11.2024

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  2. Infrastructure inequality: Who pays the cost of road roughness?

    Infrastructure inequality: Who pays the cost of road roughness?

    Roads are worse near coasts, and in poorer towns and in poorer neighborhoods, even within towns. We find that a household that drives 3,000 miles annually on predominantly local roads will suffer $318 per year more in driving pain if they live in a predominantly Black neighborhood than in a predominantly White neighborhood.

    01.01.2024

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  3. Suppliers and Demanders of Flexibility: The Demographics of Gig Work

    Suppliers and Demanders of Flexibility: The Demographics of Gig Work

    Older workers demand less flexibility from the system and women demand disproportionately more. And, workers from low-income census tracts are important suppliers of flexibility to the system.

    01.01.2020

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  1. Competition and the Cost of U.S. Infrastructure

    Working paper

    Competition and the Cost of U.S. Infrastructure

    Price increases over the past decade are primarily attributable to increasing markups, not increasing production costs. Limited competition, in turn, is consistent with patterns generated by fixed costs of entry, but not broad construction-sector fixed costs.

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  2. Pricing and Quality in Public Transit: Evidence from the MBTA

    working paper

    Pricing and Quality in Public Transit: Evidence from the MBTA

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