The Fiscal Lab Team Expands!
Weekly Lab Report – June 27, 2026
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The Fiscal Lab is excited to announce the addition of a new senior fellow and two summer interns.
Matthew D. Dickerson
Matthew Dickerson has joined the Lab as a senior fellow in budgetary analysis. He comes to us from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) where he served as director of budget policy.
Dickerson will be helping the Lab ramp up its educational programming to arm Members of Congress and their staff with practical skills and knowledge about the budget process and fiscal policy. He and colleagues at the Lab will host a briefing series, produce videos, and develop supporting resources.
In addition to the Lab’s scoring services, Dickerson can be available to provide technical assistance to congressional offices as they are crafting legislative proposals or thinking through fiscal policy issues.
Dickerson is also the founder and president of Baseline Policy and author of the Baseline Policy Brief.
Previously, Dickerson spent several years on Capitol Hill in different roles including serving as senior policy adviser on the House Budget Committee where he helped develop the fiscal year 2024 “Reverse the Curse” budget resolution. Dickerson was also the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget.
Amy Liu
Amy Liu joins the Fiscal Lab this summer taking on a central role in two of the Lab’s key initiatives. A recent Princeton graduate with a degree in economics, with minors in statistics and machine learning and creative writing, Liu brings both quantitative rigor and a gift for clear communication to translate complex fiscal research into writing that policymakers and the public can actually use. Her senior thesis examined how regulatory stringency shapes financial sector outcomes, a line of inquiry that connects directly to the Lab’s focus on the institutional dimensions of fiscal policy.
Liu is helping to build out the Center for Strategic Fiscal Reform (CSFR), which will host regular convenings to examine critical budgetary issues alongside new research as it emerges. The CSFR succeeds the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, led by distinguished tax reform advocate Ernie Christian, and carries forward that tradition of bringing serious policy thinking to bear on the country’s fiscal challenges. Alongside that work, Liu is contributing directly to the Lab’s bill scoring efforts, where she has already provided substantive input on several draft pieces of legislation.
Will Martin
Will Martin is a rising junior at Seton Hall University studying economics and business analytics. Martin joins us this summer to help with an ambitious project to develop a national task classification system that links task-level economic activity to occupations, and from occupations to industry-level output. The goal is to create a more granular, adaptable framework for understanding innovation at the task level and how improvements at this level drive growth in the economy. Martin has already completed an extensive literature review and evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of existing classification systems. We expect to publish a research paper based on this work in the fall.
Previously, Will worked in sports coaching and leadership in high school, as a consultant and VP at Consult Your Community in college, and also led a commercial YouTube channel. Will has four years of experience in applied statistical research, using analytics to drive product development at his startup, Emerald. He is particularly interested in studying the impact of new technology, especially AI, on regulatory policy.
