"[2] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020[3] and in 2021, the American Economic Association awarded him the John Bates Clark Medal.
After his MacArthur win, Andrews, who is Black and gay, commented, “I hope that my getting this grant will help to demonstrate and show that there is room for success from a wide variety of folks in the economics profession.”[8] He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.
Andrews' research concerns situations in which either the relevance condition or the exclusion restriction hold only weakly.
They have proposed methods to more accurately test hypotheses and construct confidence intervals under these statistical conditions.
Together with Gentzkow and Shapiro, he has developed a measure of the potential bias in estimators due to violations of the exclusion restriction (sensitivity).