David Simpson is a data scientist, public policy analyst, and Political Science doctoral candidate at Columbia University. His specialties are American Politics and Political Economy, and his current research focuses are Congress, fiscal federalism, public finance, state and local politics and institutional inequity.

David graduated from the University of Alabama in 2012 with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics. He also holds a M.P.P from The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a M.A. in Economics from Columbia University. Prior to joining the Political Science program at Columbia, he worked as a high school teacher in Montgomery, AL and as a fiscal analyst for the Baltimore City Council in Baltimore, MD.

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