Macroeconomics Seminar with Damon Jones (University of Chicago)

Damon Jones is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and of the Population Research Center, NORC,  an Affiliate as well as Visiting Scholar of the Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison), a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (Chicago) and Affiliated Professor at J-PAL. Among his editorial duties, he is Co-Editor of Tax Policy and the Economy and of the Journal of Public Economics.

He conducts research at the intersection of three fields: public finance, household finance, and labour economics. He has researched topics that include inequality, household financial decision-making, and racial equity, touches on policies such as income tax, the social safety net, social security, retirement and retirement savings, the interaction between employer-provided benefits and labor market outcomes, and economic inequality across racial lines. More recently, he has conducted research on workplace wellness programs, universal basic income, and racial differences in financial outcomes.

Damon Jones' website

He will present a paper, joint with Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, and Chris Wheat, at the next Macroeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Liquid Wealth and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks (read paper)

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Alessandra Peter (NYU) on May 20th.