Nicholas L. Anderson

Dr. Nicholas Anderson (Nick) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with two departments at Columbia University, QMSS and Human Development (HUD) at Teachers College. He teaches courses which emphasize advanced quantitative analysis, including regression, statistics, and probability. He currently works full time at Mercer’s Workforce Strategy and Analytics group, where he advised Fortune 500 companies on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices using their human resource data. He completed his dissertation in 2021 on a topic in meta-analysis, where his research shows that it is feasible to treat logistic regression slopes as a partial effect size in a meta-analysis – once certain assumptions are met. His research interests are in statistics, causal inference, meta-analysis, education and various topics in labor economics.