Rusty Tchernis

Rusty Tchernis serves as Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, while holding prestigious affiliations as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

His educational background includes graduate training at Brown University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Professor Tchernis specializes in Health Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Econometrics, with particular expertise in program evaluation, spatial econometrics, Bayesian methods, and childhood obesity economics. His methodological innovations address critical challenges like endogenous misreporting and measurement error in policy evaluation.

Recent publications demonstrate his focus on SNAP program impacts, parental employment effects on child health, and advanced treatment effect estimation techniques, reflecting his interdisciplinary approach to health and labor policy questions.

His scientific recognition includes:

• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Research funding has been secured from the National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Agriculture, supporting his work on obesity prevention and food security initiatives. His publications appear in top journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of Econometrics.