David is an economist at CEPR. He has a PhD in computer science from North Carolina State University and an M.A. in economics from George Washington University.
David has extensive experience monitoring international election data and testing theories of fraud and institutional interference, including balloting in Bolivia (“Observing the Observers: The OAS In The 2019 Bolivian Elections” with Jake Johnston, March 2020), Ecuador, Haiti (“The Organization of American States in Haiti: Election Monitoring or Political Intervention?” October 2011), Mexico (“An Analysis of Mexico’s Recounted Ballots” with Mark Weisbrot, Luis Sandoval, and Carla Paredes-Drouet, August 2006), Pakistan, Peru, and Venezuela (“Black Swans, Conspiracy Theories, and the Quixotic Search for Fraud: A Look at Hausmann and Rigobon’s Analysis of Venezuela’s Referendum Vote” with Mark Weisbrot and Todd Tucker, September 2004).
David has written numerous policy papers and analyses on a variety of subjects including “Have US-Funded CARSI Programs Reduced Crime and Violence in Central America?” with Alex Main and Laura Jung; “Latin American Growth in the 21st Century: The ‘Commodities Boom’ That Wasn’t” with Mark Weisbrot, May 2014; “Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy” with Dean Baker, January 2012; “The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers” with Dean Baker, April 2011; “Social Security and the Age of Retirement,” June 2010; “Poor Numbers: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty,” with Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker, November 2004; and “The Forty-Four Trillion Dollar Deficit Scare,” with Dean Baker, September 2003.
He is the architect of a number of online calculators, including CEPR’s Accurate Benefits Calculator that compares current-law Social Security benefits to the Bush Plan based on “Progressive Indexing” and the Housing Cost Calculator that compares the cost of owning a home relative to renting for a potential new homeowner. The Housing Cost Calculator gave homebuyers a sense of how the bubble in the housing market might have affected them.
Prior to joining CEPR, he worked as a research associate (postdoc) at the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
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A Statistical Note on the April 14 Venezuelan Presidential Election and Audit of Results
May 2013, David Rosnick and Mark Weisbrot
Farmer’s Folly: Bringing the Nikkei Godzilla to America
UCLA’s Roger Farmer has suggested that the government should bid up asset prices—say, purchasing shares of companies in the S&P 500 in order to drive up the stock market. In essence, he argues that the wealth effect will stimulate consumption and investm
The Productivity Dividend for Dummies: Raising Pay While Working Less
I am greatly pleased to see such interest in CEPR’s recent report on work hours and climate change. All evidence points to the idea that gradually reducing annual labor hours per worker will reduce the amount of climate change with which the world will h
Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change
This paper estimates the impact on climate change of reducing work hours over the rest of the century by an annual average of 0.5 percent.
Adjusting for Polling Biases in Venezuela’s 2012 Presidential Election
October 2012, David Rosnick
Breaking Down the Causes of Income Inequality
David RosnickEconomic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), July 16, 2012
CPI in June Shows Little Sign of Rising Inflation
July 17, 2012 (Prices Byte)
Missing the Story: The OECD’s Analysis of Inequality
July 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker
Headline Inflation Slows for Fourth Consecutive Month
Price of Health Insurance, Dec 2005 – May 2012
June 14, 2012