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Researcher
Bio/CV:
Maggie R. Jones received a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University in 2012. She worked for the U.S. Census Bureau as an economist after receiving her Ph.D., first in the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications and then in the Center for Economic Studies. Her research has focused on using administrative records to uncover economic outcomes that are difficult to measure in other types of data, including studies on the labor market impacts of industry credentialing, patterns of income mobility and income growth by demographic group, the anti-poverty impact and cost-benefit outcomes of EITC take-up, and the effects of the casino industry on American Indian communities.
Maggie's contributions to public-use statistics on intra- and intergenerational mobility include the Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics Project and the Opportunity Atlas. Her research has been published in top economics and demography journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Public Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Demography.
Research interests:
Educational attainment, tax policy, income mobility, labor and employment, cash transfers
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