Author: Lindsey Currier

Lindsey Currier is an economist whose research focuses on urban economics, industrial organization, and public economics, with a particular interest in transportation, infrastructure, and government procurement. Dr. Currier is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2027, she will join the Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Currier received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Before graduate school, I worked as a Data Scientist at Uber and earned degrees in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago.

Commentary

Infrastructure Costs Are a Procurement Story
By Lindsey Currier October 7, 2026October 8, 2026

Americans have long intuited that we pay too much for infrastructure. Only recently, however, have researchers documented just how high those costs are: American urban rail projects cost far more than comparable projects in other rich countries, and the cost of building American interstates has risen several times over since the 1960s. There are many…

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