Kyle Herkenhoff is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota and a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He received grants in the past while an employee at the University of Minnesota.
He has interests in macroeconomics, applied macroeconomics, and real estate economics.
His dissertation research, which was awarded the Welton Prize in Macroeconomics at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Institute of Humane Studies Dissertation Fellowship, looked at the rise of unsecured credit access among the unemployed during the mid-1980s and its role in jobless recoveries.
He received his B.A. in business economics from the the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics.
Funded Research
The impact of consumer credit access on employment, earnings, and entrepreneurship
What can 5 million households tell us about the impact of credit access on job finding and wage inequality?
Authored by Kyle Herkenhoff
Where should the marginal dollar go in U.S. fiscal policy—to testing or to the safety net—amid a pandemic-induced economic downturn? (opens in a new tab)
Blog APR 27, 2020
By: David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff
The case for more internships and apprenticeships in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 5, 2019
By: Kyle Herkenhoff
What new administrative data reveals about access to consumer credit and the U.S. economy (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 31, 2016
By: Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips
Kyle Herkenhoff’s Working Papers
How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers OCT 5, 2023
By: Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cissé, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Ahmadou A. Mbaye
An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers APR 7, 2020
By: David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey
Production and learning in teams (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 5, 2019
By: Kyle Herkenhoff, Jeremy Lise, Guido Menzio, Gordon Phillips
Patent publication and technology spillovers (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers DEC 18, 2018
By: Deepak Hegde, Kyle Herkenhoff, Chenqi Zhu
The impact of consumer credit access on employment, earnings and entrepreneurship (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers FEB 28, 2017
By: Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips, Ethan Cohen-Cole
How credit constraints impact job finding rates, sorting & aggregate output (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JUN 7, 2016
By: Kyle Herkenho ff, Gordon Phillips, Ethan Cohen-Cole
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