I’m a PhD Economist with a product mindset. I have 8 years of experience helping organizations use data analysis to make informed decisions.

I work with stakeholders across functions (leadership, business, product, software, data, business intelligence, science) to find a holistic solution. My expertise spans over the whole data analytics lifecycle: understanding customer needs, proposing a research approach, building measures of success, doing cost-benefits analysis, designing and evaluating pilots, prototyping and improving algorithms in production. In the past, I led prototyping and expansion of science algorithms for two organizations at a large tech company: compensation for supply-chain workers and prices at an omni-channel grocery store.

I hold a PhD in Economics from Duke University with a background in causal inference and structural labor economics.

This is my personal website, all views expressed here are my own and do not represent my current or former employers.

Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications

Peter Arcidiacono, Attila Gyetvai, Arnaud Maurel, Ekaterina Jardim. Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models with Preference Shocks. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

Ekaterina Jardim, Mark C. Long, Robert Plotnick, Jacob Vigdor, Emma Wiles. Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 234 (2024)

Ekaterina Jardim, Mark C. Long, Robert Plotnick, Emma van Inwegen, Jacob Vigdor, Hilary Wething. Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 14, no. 2 (2022)

Jennifer J. Otten, Katherine Getts, Anne Althauser, James Buszkiewicz, Ekaterina Jardim, Heather D. Hill, Jennifer Romich, Scott W. Allard. Responding to an Increased Minimum Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Child Care Businesses during the Implementation of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance. Social Work & Society, vol. 16, no. 1 (2018)

Permanent Working Papers

Ekaterina Jardim, Emma van Inwegen. Payroll, Revenue, and Labor Demand Effects of the Minimum Wage. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Working Paper 19-298 (2019)

Ekaterina Jardim, Gary Solon, Jacob Vigdor. How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Evidence from Payroll Records in Washington State. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 25470 (2019)

Media Coverage

The New York Times (1), The New York Times (2),  The Economist (1), The Economist (2), FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times