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Jonathan Fisher

Former Interim Chief Economist and Research Advisor

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

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Jonathan Fisher

Jonathan Fisher is the former interim chief economist and research advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His areas of research include inequality, mobility, and personal bankruptcy.

Prior to Equitable Growth, Fisher was at the Stanford University Center on Poverty and Inequality, where he was a research scholar and a senior researcher on the American Opportunity Study.

He has also worked at the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A twice-awarded grantee of Equitable Growth, Fisher’s research has been published in the Review of Income and Wealth, Labour, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Contemporary Economic Policy, and elsewhere. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. from Alma College.

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Funded Research

All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$68,000

Using linked Census data to examine occupation mobility in the United States

2018
Grantees: Timothy Smeeding (opens in a new tab), C. Matthew Snipp (opens in a new tab), David Grusky (opens in a new tab), and Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab)
All Academic Awards 2024 and Prior
$49,500

Wealth, income, and consumption: a microeconomic approach to a macroeconomic question

2014
Grantees: David Johnson (opens in a new tab), Timothy Smeeding (opens in a new tab), Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab), and Jeffrey Thompson (opens in a new tab)
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