Michael Topper

PhD Candidate in Economics

UCSB

Michael Topper

I am a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the economics department. I will be on the job market for the 2023-2024 academic year. My research focuses on the economics of crime.

Download my Job Market Paper.

Interests

Economics of Crime
Labor Economics
Health Economics
Data Science
Open-source Software

Education

PhD Student in Economics
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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