Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
Phone: (917) 854-2749
Email: connor.redpath@gmail.com
Education
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
PhD Economics - 2023
MA Economics - 2019
Fordham University
New York, NY
BSc Mathematics & Economics summa cum laude - 2017
Relevant Positions Held
Research Economist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 2023 - present
Adjunct Professor, Fordham University, 2024 - present
Special Sworn Status Researcher, US Census Bureau, 2024 - present
Fellow in Economics, Harvard University, 2021 - 2025
Research Assistant, Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies, 2020
Working Papers
“Migrants Move Marriage Markets? Evidence from Same-Sex Spousal Visa Access” (revisions requested, Journal of Human Resources )
Abstract:
How do spousal visas impact couple formation, marriage, and assortative mating? To answer, I leverage the 2013 federal recognition of same-sex marriages: a unique setting with extensive margin changes in spousal visa access. Using difference-in-difference-in-differences, I find spousal visa access causes a 36% increase in mixed-citizenship same-sex couples and a 72% increase in their marriage rate, above and beyond increases in other same-sex couples and other mixed-citizenship couples. Informal calculations suggest that 1.5 million people are currently partnered directly thanks to spousal visa policy. Results also suggest greater assortative mating by age and education, implying improved match quality.“Officer Language and Suspect Race: A Text Analysis of Police Reports” (with Romaine Campbell)
Abstract:
We evaluate whether police officers use adjectives and adverbs that systematically differ by the suspect’s race (race-predictive language) and whether race-predictive language use relates to officer characteristics. We leverage a novel data set containing police report text from a single large urban police department. We identify race-predictive language using a linear combination of LASSO and ridge regression regularization with word counts, and we then use predicted race to construct an officer-level measure of race-predictive language. We find evidence that officers use different adjectives and adverbs in reports for Black versus white suspects. Black officers use less race-predictive language. Race-predictive language use correlates positively with officer inexperience and the number of instances of use-of-force.Works in Progress
“Employed in a SNAP? The Staggered Roll-Out of Work Requirements” (with Mary Zaki)
“First Financial Footsteps: Parental Transmission of Bank Account Ownership” (with Garret Christensen)
“Parenting Possibilities and Partner Priorities: Age Gaps After Same-Sex Marriage Rights”
“Unauthorized and Unbanked? Immigration Status and Access to Financial Services?”
Publications
“Risk Aversion, Offsetting Community Effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an Indoor Political Rally” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 63, 133–167 (2021) (with Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia)
Abstract:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deem large indoor gatherings without social distancing the “highest risk” activity for COVID-19 contagion. On June 20, 2020, President Donald J. Trump held his first mass campaign rally following the US coronavirus outbreak at the indoor Bank of Oklahoma arena. In the weeks following the event, numerous high-profile national news outlets reported that the Trump rally was “more than likely” the cause of a coronavirus surge in Tulsa County based on time series data. This study is the first to rigorously explore the impacts of this event on social distancing and COVID-19 spread. First, using data from SafeGraph Inc, we show that while non-resident visits to census block groups hosting the Trump event grew by approximately 25 percent, there was no decline in net stay-at-home behavior in Tulsa County, reflecting important offsetting behavioral effects. Then, using data on COVID-19 cases from the CDC and a synthetic control design, we find little evidence that COVID-19 grew more rapidly in Tulsa County, its border counties, or in the state of Oklahoma than each's estimated counterfactual during the five-week post-treatment period we observe. Difference-in-differences estimates further provide no evidence that COVID-19 rates grew faster in counties that drew relatively larger shares of residents to the event. We conclude that offsetting risk-related behavioral responses to the rally—including voluntary closures of restaurants and bars in downtown Tulsa, increases in stay-at-home behavior, displacement of usual activities of weekend inflows, and smaller-than-expected crowd attendance—may be important mechanisms.Teaching Experience
Fordham University
New York, NY
Adjunct Professor
| Course | Title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 1100 | Principles of Macroeconomics | Fall 2024 |
| ECON 1200 | Principles of Microeconomics | Spring 2025 |
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Instructor of Record
| Course | Title | Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Summer 2022 |
| ECON 3 | Principles of Macroeconomics | Summer 2021 |
Teaching Assistant
| Course | Title | Professor | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPEC 446 | Applied Data Analysis | McIntosh | Spring 2023 |
| ECON 172B | Operations Research | Newhouse | Spring 2022 |
| ECON 120C | Econometrics | Wüthrich | Winter 2022 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Fall 2021 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Spring 2021 |
| ECON 172B | Operations Research | Berg | Winter 2021 |
| ECON 171 | Decision Under Uncertainty | Newhouse | Fall 2020 |
| ECON 3 | Principles of Macroeconomics | Howden | Summer 2020 |
| ECON 121 | Applied Econometrics & Data Analysis | Vogl | Winter 2020 |
| ECON 172A | Operations Research | Newhouse | Fall 2019 |
| ECON 110A | Macroeconomics | Rondina | Spring 2019 |
| ECON 172A | Operations Research | Newhouse | Winter 2019 |
| ECON 120A | Econometrics | Candido | Fall 2018 |
Honors & Awards
| Institution | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Excellence Bonuses for outstanding accomplishments and sustained performance excellence | FDIC | 2025 |
| Mission Achievement Awards for forward-looking, sensible, and thoughtful revisions the 2025 FDIC Unbanked survey and significant contributions to organizing the Consumer Research Symposium | FDIC | 2024 |
| Star Award for efficient, no-nonsense leadership in successfully buliding and running seminar series | FDIC | 2024 |
| TA Excellence Award | UCSD Econ | 2020-2021 |
| Graduate Student Research Fellowship | UCSD Econ | 2019 |
| Graduate Student Research Fellowship | UCSD Econ | 2018 |
| Regents Fellowship | UCSD | 2017-2018 |
| Charles A O’Neil Award (most grade points) | Fordham University | 2017 |
| Putnam Competition (above median scores) | MAA | 2015, 2016 |
| Dean’s List | Fordham University | 2015-2016, 2016-2017 |
Professional Activities
Seminar Presentations
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Loyola University of Chicago | Chicago | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt Empirical and Applied Microeconomics (VEAM) | Nashville | 2022 |
| UCSD Applied Lunch (x2) | San Diego | |
| UCSD Applied Lunch (x3) | San Diego | 2021 |
| CSQIEP Seminar Series | virtual | 2020 |
| UCSD Applied Lunch | San Diego |
Conference Presentations
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| WEAI Annual Meeting* | San Francisco | 2025 |
| Boulder Conference on Consumer Finance (poster)* | Boulder | |
| PAA Annual Meeting* | Washington | |
| ACCI Annual Meeting* | Pittsburgh | |
| MEA Anual Meeeting* | Kansas City | |
| *withdrew for government efficiency | ||
| APPAM | Atlanta | 2023 |
| WEAI Annual Meeting | San Diego | |
| Society of Economics of the Household | Copenhagen | |
| WEAI Annual Meeting | Portland | 2022 |
| PAA Annual Meeting (poster) | virtual | |
| Economic Demography Workshop | virtual | |
| AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting | virtual | |
| Economics Graduate Student Conference | St Louis | 2021 |
| All-California Labor Economics Conference (poster) | virtual |
Conference Discussant
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| WEAI Annual Meeting | San Diego | 2023 |
| WEAI Annual Meeting | Portland | 2022 |
Conference Reviewer
| Name | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| APPAM | Seattle | 2025 |
| ACCI | Pittsburgh | 2025 |
| APPAM | National Harbor | 2024 |
| ACCI | Milwaukee | 2024 |
| Consumer Research Symposium | Arlington | 2024 |
Referee Service
Review of Economics of the Household, Scientific Reports, Social Forces
Other Service
Organizer, Consumer Research Symposium, 2024
Member, Search Committee for the Dean of Rady School of Management, 2019
Other Information
Skills: R, Python, SQL, Stata, Matlab, NLP, quanteda, Latex, Git
Professional Classical Ballet Dancer:
Lietuvos Nacionalinis Operos ir Baleto Teatras, Vilnius, 2013-2015