About
Aryan Safi is a senior research analyst in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is an applied researcher focused on combining traditional and alternative data sources with rigorous empirical methods to understand pressing social and economic challenges. His research is in the areas of labor economics, urban economics, and health economics. His work includes developing new labor market indicators for the Chicago Fed that enhance our understanding of employment dynamics, constructing historical decompositions of residential segregation, examining how market competition shapes quality outcomes in nursing home markets, and providing real-time insights into the economic well-being of low-income households in the Chicago area.