“How much credit can you give presidents for creating jobs?”

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the Marketplace story “How much credit can you give presidents for creating jobs?” Flores-Lagunes, an expert on labor economics and causal inference, explained that it is often difficult to discern the exact factors that cause job numbers to rise. “We have a political cycle that has a very specific timeline. The economy is just a system that continues to evolve and to make progress independently of that,” Flores-Lagunes said.