$75,000
Racial and ethnic inequality in consumption smoothing
2020
Damon Jones is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He conducts research at the intersection of three fields within economics: public finance, household finance, and behavioral economics.
His current research topics include household financial vulnerability, income tax policy, Social Security, retirement savings, worker benefits, and labor markets. Jones was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research in 2009–2010 and is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jones received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds a B.A. in public policy with a minor in African American studies from Stanford University.
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Damon Jones’s Working Papers
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The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JUL 26, 2023
By: Brandon Enriquez, Damon Jones, Ernest V. Tedeschi
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Taxation
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