Andrew Reamer

Andrew Reamer

Andrew Reamer

Research Professor


Contact:

Email: Andrew Reamer
Office Phone: (202) 994-7866
Fax: (202) 994-8913
805 21st Street NW, Office 613 Washington DC 20052

Andrew Reamer’s research efforts aim to encourage U.S. national economic development and competitiveness. Areas of focus include strategic economic analysis and policy, innovation and entrepreneurship, workforce development, and the federal economic statistics system.  

 
Intended to inform public decision-makers, Reamer's work resides on the boundary between research and practice. His current sponsors include the American Economic Association, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness.  Reamer is a member of several federal advisory committees--the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Workforce Information Advisory Council, the Bureau of Economic Advisory Committee, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee. 
 
Reamer joined GWIPP in 2010, after six years at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and 20 years as a consultant in U.S. regional economic development and public policy. He received a Ph.D. in Economic Development and Public Policy and a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
 

U.S. Economic Competitiveness Policies and Strategies. Reamer examines the current state of federal government efforts to promote economic competitiveness. Current efforts include:

  • an inventory of congressional findings and priorities, as reflected in the U.S. Code, regarding competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship;
  • an inventory of federal programs that currently support competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship; 
  • an inventory of the current efforts of other nations to strategically promote competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship; and
  • a review of federal efforts from 1789 to the present to promote national competitiveness, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Capacity to Measure U.S. Trade in Value-Added and Map Global Value Chains. Reamer is exploring ways that the federal government might work with international bodies, such as the World Trade Organization and OECD, to create global trade accounting frameworks that measure the value added by each nation. In this way, the U.S. government and firms would be able to more clearly see the place of the U.S. in global value chains, its competitive strengths and weaknesses, and the implications for public policy. 

Improvements in Federal Workforce and Education Statistical Programs. Reamer is working to improve the availability and reliability of federal workforce and education statistics needed by students, workers, educators, employers, and policymakers to make informed decisions about, respectively, careers, education and training programs, business location, and public investments. 

Uses of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Reamer is compilling a reference document on the uses of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) in the construction of other federal statistical measures, such as population estimates, per capita income, and housing price indices.

Federal Sources of Entrepreneurship Data: A Compendium

December 16, 2019

Counting U.S. Secondary and Postsecondary Credentials

April 05, 2018

Nationwide Data Initiative: Principles of Approach to Organizational Design and Development

April 05, 2018

Counting For Dollars 2020: Estimating Fiscal Costs of a Census Undercount to States

March 19, 2018

Information Resources for Middle Skills Workforce Development

April 25, 2016

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Statistical Programs: 2016

March 31, 2016

Testimony to the House Appropriations Committee

March 30, 2016

Communicating the American Community Survey's Value to Respondents

March 08, 2016

Urban Politics Revisited: A Policy-centered Look at Local Political Ecologies

February 12, 2016

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Statistical Programs: 2015

November 06, 2015

Information Resources to Facilitate Middle Skills Workforce Development

August 21, 2015

Analyzing Talent Flow: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement

July 08, 2015

The Mercantilist Policy Origins of Federal Economic Statistics Agencies

June 27, 2015

Information Resources for Middle Skills Workforce Development

June 25, 2015

Towards a Federal Strategy for U.S. Economic Competitiveness

May 27, 2015

Madison’s Legacy: Federal Statistical Products Based on the American Community Survey

May 12, 2015

Balancing Confidentiality and Access: Sharing Employment and Wage Data for Policy Analysis and Research

May 01, 2015

Overview of Private Sources of Workforce Data

March 01, 2015

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Statistical Programs: 2014

December 30, 2014

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Competitiveness and Policy Programs: 2014

December 30, 2014

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Education and Workforce Statistics

December 03, 2014

Building a Strategy for American Innovation: Proposed Elements

November 19, 2014

Revising the 2014 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

October 15, 2014

Competitiveness Enhancement Needs Assessment Survey

October 14, 2014

Public and Private Sources of Education and Workforce Data

October 08, 2014

Profiles of U.S. Education and Workforce Data Sources

October 01, 2014

Efforts to Measure Trade in Value-Added and Map Global Value Chains: A Guide

May 29, 2014

Stumbling into the Great Recession: How and Why GDP Estimates Kept Economists and Policymakers in the Dark

May 09, 2014

Stumbling into the Great Recession: How and Why GDP Estimates Kept Economists and Policymakers in the Dark

April 25, 2014

Public and Private Sources of Education and Workforce Data

April 23, 2014

Indicators of the Capacity for Invention in the United States

March 27, 2014

National Nonprofit Organizations That Inspire and Enable Invention and Invention-based Enterprises

February 28, 2014

The Impacts of Technological Invention on Economic Growth – A Review of the Literature

February 28, 2014

In Support of the Lumina Foundation’s Goal 2025: GWIPP Project to Promote Improved Education and Workforce Data

February 27, 2014

Global Entrepreneurship Week Policy Survey 2013

November 18, 2013

Recommendations to the Commerce Department's Manufacturing Council

July 23, 2013

A Foundation to Measure U.S. Economic Competitiveness: Proposals

June 20, 2013

The Manufacturing and Trade Policy Origins of U.S. Economic Statistical Agencies: A Handout

June 20, 2013

Improving Federal Statistics for Industry Studies

May 29, 2013

Sources and Uses of Federal Labor Market Information: Current Developments

April 16, 2013

Using Real-time Labor Market Information on a Nationwide Scale

April 01, 2013

Reference Materials on the American Community Survey

January 30, 2013

American Community Survey: Uses and Users

December 11, 2012

The Economic Census and Its Role In Economic Statistics

October 15, 2012

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Economic Statistics Programs: 2012

September 28, 2012

“The Very Picture of What’s Wrong in D.C.”: Daniel Webster and the American Community Survey

September 13, 2012

Census: Planning Ahead for 2020

July 18, 2012

The Economic Impact of Ending or Reducing Funding for the American Community Survey and Other Government Statistics

June 19, 2012

Innovative Data Sources for Regional Economic Analysis

May 07, 2012

Innovative Data Sources for Regional Economic Research and Analysis: Conference and Symposium Report

May 07, 2012

The Government's Role in Stimulating Clusters

December 07, 2011

Employment and Workforce Data Systems at the Federal Level

November 29, 2011

Submitted Comments Regarding Federal Economic Statistical Programs: 2011

August 22, 2011

Sub-National STI Statistics: Recommendations for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

July 12, 2011

Putting America to Work: The Essential Role of Federal Labor Market Statistics

March 25, 2011

Innovations in Federal Statistics: New Views on Regions

March 20, 2011

The Changing Landscape of Federal Workforce Statistics: The Context for Real-Time LMI

March 15, 2011

 

Counting for Dollars 2020: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

April 29, 2020

Federal Sources of Entrepreneurship Data: A Compendium

December 16, 2019

Program on Innovation and Small-Medium Enterprises (PRISM)

January 18, 2019

Company Outcomes Research for Evaluating SBIR (CORES)

May 15, 2018

Non-Traditional Sources of Economic Data

January 08, 2018

Credential Program Count Project

December 15, 2017

Nationwide Data Infrastructure for Evidence-based Policy Analysis

December 15, 2017

Counting for Dollars 2020: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

August 18, 2017

Improving Federal Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Policies and Statistical Products

April 13, 2017

Talent Flow Analysis Handbook

February 01, 2015

Enhancing User Access to Available Labor Market Information

June 10, 2014

Identifying Uses of the American Community Survey

May 15, 2014

Improving Federal Statistical and Economic Policies

January 01, 2014

Increasing Postsecondary Educational Attainment through Improved Education and Workforce Data

December 02, 2013

Global Entrepreneurship Week Public Policy Survey

September 01, 2013

The Capacity for Invention in the United States: A Reconnaissance

March 01, 2013

Improving Federal Economic Statistics (Phase IV)

January 01, 2012

Innovative Regional Statistics

July 14, 2011

Real-Time Labor Market Information Systems

April 01, 2011

Improving Federal Economic Statistics (Phase III)

October 01, 2010