Andrew Foote

Andrew Foote
Lead Economist, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program, Center for Economic Studies,
U.S. Census Bureau
Andrew Foote is lead economist with the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program (LEHD) in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. He was previously a research and teaching assistant at the University of California, Davis, Center for Poverty and Inequity Research. His primary research interests and specialties are U.S. internal migration—particularly effects of labor market and crime shocks on migration—job loss and reemployment, and education policy. He is currently researching the correlation between students' receiving information about their readiness for college and their subsequent college enrollment decisions. Foote received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Davis.
updated 2025