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Katherine Chang

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Statistician

Bureau, Office or Division

Consumer Protection

Email Address

Selected Publications

"The Effect of Noncompete Enforceability on Productivity: Evidence from a New Dataset on State-level Manufacturing Productivity," with Michael Lipsitz, Devesh Raval, Matthew Johnson, and Kurt Lavetti, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Forthcoming.

Selected Presentations

Cognitive Economic Curves: Quantifying the Clarity of Policy and Consumer Communications. 18th FTC Microeconomics Conference. Washington, DC (2026)
The Effect of Noncompete Enforceability on Productivity: Evidence from a New Dataset on State-level Manufacturing Productivity. ASSA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA (2026)
How bottom-up salience interacts with rational inattention. North-American ESA Conference, Choice Process Data Workshop. Santa Barbara, CA (2022)

Education

California Institute of Technology

BS Applied and Computational Mathematics, Economics

2023

Fields of Interest

Behavioral Economics
Salience
Experimental Economics
Rational Inattention

Professional Experience

Statistician
Federal Trade Commission
2024-Present

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