Michael Topper

I am a SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow. My research focuses on the economics of crime. In Fall of 2025, I will be joining Cal Poly Pomona as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

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Interests
  • Economics of Crime
  • Labor Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Data Science
  • Open-source Software
Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2024

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • MA in Economics, 2018

    San Diego State University

  • Joint BS Mathematics/Economics, 2015

    University of California, San Diego

Recent Posts

An Interactive Fantano Graph
As a pseudo-productive way to procrastinate my research production, I decided to take a day to learn more about plotly and ggplot2. using these tools together, I managed to create a fun visualization of the internet’s busiest nerd.
Last updated on Feb 15, 2023 6 min read
Anthony Fantano Data Scraped (Download in CSV)
Like Melon? Me too. Analyze his data here!
Last updated on Jun 22, 2022 1 min read
Regression Tables w/ Many Subsets of Data in Long Form
Make a unique table that is completely automated!
Last updated on Feb 15, 2023 7 min read cleaning, R, modelsummary, kable, kableExtra
Append Many Years of Data into One with Minimal Typing
Stop typing so much and save your sanity.
Last updated on Feb 15, 2023 3 min read cleaning, datascience, R
Looping Through Columns (Without Looping)
Showcasing the power of dplyr::across!
Last updated on Feb 15, 2023 7 min read datascience, R, cleaning, dplyr
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