About

EconoFact is a non-partisan publication designed to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies. Launched in January 2017, it is written by leading academic economists from across the country who belong to the EconoFact Network.  It is published by the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Mission

Our mission at EconoFact is to provide even-handed analyses of timely economic policy issues drawing on data, historical experience and well-regarded economic frameworks. The presentation is primarily in short memo form.  The memos are written in a manner that is accessible to a wide audience, even when discussing complex economic and statistical analyses.

Our goal is to contribute to the public debate through outreach to journalists, to those directly affecting policy in the corridors of Washington and in our state capitols, and to the public at large. Content published by EconoFact (excluding video content co-produced by EconoFact and third party collaborators) may be reproduced on other websites in accordance with these terms.

We hope that EconoFact serves as a resource for policymakers, thought leaders and journalists, and indeed all interested Americans, so the debate on economic policies can be better based on reasoned arguments, statistical research, and historical experiences.

Executive Editor

Professor Michael Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He served as the Chief Economist in the Office of International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010-2011. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Boston, Dallas, and San Francisco.

Publisher

Edward Schumacher-Matos is the director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a professor on media matters. He has been a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal, a foreign correspondent at The New York Times, a columnist at The Washington Post, ombudsman at NPR and a member of a team to win a Pulitzer Prize at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia Journalism School and the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. An expert on immigration economics, he is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. He was awarded a bronze star for merit in Vietnam.

Board of Advisors

Managing Editor

Miriam is a writer and editor specializing in economics and public policy. She has been an editor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and her work has appeared in The Economist, Stanford News, The Chicago Tribune online, The Miami Herald, and El Tiempo (Colombia), among others.

Deputy Managing Editor

Kailash’s expertise in international political economy, in addition to data visualisation. He has previously worked for The Guardian. Some of his writing has appeared in Politico, The National Interest, and The Diplomat among other outlets.

Research Associates

Ema is a recent graduate of Duke University, where she majored in Public Policy and History. She has previously worked at the Center for Advanced Hindsight. Her interests include international development, behavioral economics, and inequality.

Emma is a recent graduate of Oxford University where she read History. Her interests include immigration, economic inequality and climate change and sustainable development.

Research Assistants

Josh is a senior undergraduate at Tufts University majoring in Quantitative Economics and International Relations. He has worked in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and at Foreign Brief, an online geopolitics publisher. His interests include international migration, trade, and development.

Natalia is in her second year of the Economics M.S. program at Tufts University. She is currently writing her thesis on Puerto Rican migration after Hurricane Maria and worked in the past as a policy analyst for the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. Her interests include development economics, environmental economics and inequality.

Interns