Robert Martin
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Mail code: 3906Campus: Tempe
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Robert Martin is a research economist with the W. P. Carey Center for Real Estate and Finance at Arizona State University. Prior to working at ASU, he was a research economist with the Division of Price and Index Number Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His research interests include applied econometrics, price indexes, distributional measures, and empirical microeconomics.
Ph.D., Economics, Michigan State University, 2017
B.S., Economics, the George Washington University, 2008
econometrics, price indexes, distributional measures, and empirical economics
“The Polarization of Personal Saving” (with Marina Gindelsky). 2025. Review of Income and Wealth. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.70004
“Democratic Aggregation: Issues and Implications for Consumer Price Indexes.” 2024. Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 71, No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12703.
“A distributional approach to U.S. personal consumption expenditures: an overview" (with T. I. Garner, B. Matsumoto, and S. Curtin). 2024. Business Economics, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 166-173. https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-024-00358-2. Winner of the 2024 Abramson Award for Best Paper from the editors of Business Economics
“Revisiting Taste Change in Cost-of-Living Measurement.” 2022. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 109-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JEM-220485.
“The robustness of conditional logit for binary panel data models with serial correlation” (with D. Kwak and J.M. Wooldridge). 2023. Journal of Econometric Methods, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 33-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/jem-2021-0005.
“The Geometric Young Formula for Elementary Aggregate Producer Price Indexes” (with A. Sadler, S. Stanley, W. Thompson, and J. Weinhagen). 2022. Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 38, No. 1., pp. 239-253. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/JOS-2022-0011.
“Estimation of average marginal effects in multiplicative unobserved effects panel models” 2017. Economics Letters 160, pp. 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.08.020.
Working papers:
"Rethinking inflation heterogeneity: evidence from national accounts" (with Marina Gindelsky). 2025. https://www.bea.gov/system/files/papers/BEA-WP2025-9.pdf
“Another Look at the Linear Probability Model and Nonlinear Index Models” (with Kaicheng Chen and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge). 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15338
“Household Cost Indexes: Prototype Methods and Results” (with Joshua Klick, William Johnson, and Paul Liegey). 2023. BLS Working Paper 604.
NBER Conference of Research on Income and Wealth, American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, Econometric Society