BLS Commissioner Nominee Brett Matsumoto

Articles or comments in peer reviewed journals, per Google Scholar:

  • Price beliefs and experience: Do consumers’ beliefs converge to empirical distributions with repeated purchases? , B Matsumoto, F Spence, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 126, 243-254 (2016)
  • Family ruptures, stress, and the mental health of the next generation: Comment, B Matsumoto, American economic review 108 (4-5), 1253-1255 (2018)
  • Building a consumption poverty measure: Initial results following recommendations of a federal interagency working group, G Armstrong, C Cho, TI Garner, B Matsumoto, J Munoz, J Schild (2018)
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings 112, 335-339 (2022)Detecting potential overbilling in Medicare reimbursement via hours worked: comment, B Matsumoto, American Economic Review 110 (12), 3991-4003 (2020)
  • A distributional approach to US personal consumption expenditures: an overview
    TI Garner, R Martin, B Matsumoto, S Curtin, Business Economics 59 (3), 166-173 (2024)
He also has 2 Chapters in edited books:
  • Measuring prices and real household consumption of medical goods: service-based versus disease-based approaches, R Bradley, B Matsumoto, Handbook of US consumer economics, 355-388 (2019)
  • Measurement issues, B Matsumoto, A Stockburger, Research Handbook on Inflation, 22-34 (2025)

 

UNC Ph.D. dissertation here:

In addition he has five Monthly Labor Review articles. While that journal is in-house, it is (like typical agency articles) internally reviewed; it is also widely respected and cited.

One can compare this to the previous nominee’s record, as discussed here, here, and here.

His BLS webpage; NYT article on this topic.

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