Jonathan Fisher
Jonathan Fisher

Former Interim Chief Economist and Research Advisor

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

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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Wealth as a driver of income and consumption mobility in the United States

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Intergenerational Mobility using Income, Consumption, and Wealth

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The impact of different inflationary pressures due to income inequality and racial disparities in the United States today

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Consumption volatility across the U.S. income distribution is highest among low-income workers and their families

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Money Matters: Consumption Volatility Across the Income Distribution

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