Bhash "Bhashkar" Mazumder is a senior economist in the economic research department and executive director of the Chicago Census Research Data Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. As a member of the microeconomic team, Mazumder conducts research in labor economics, education and health. His recent research has focused on the long-term effects of poor health early in life. He has also written several papers on intergenerational economic mobility.
Mazumder’s research has been published in the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Human Resources and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been featured in the Chicago Fed Letter and Economic Perspectives. Mazumder has also served as a co-editor for a symposium on intergenerational mobility at the journal, Industrial Relations.
In addition to his research activities, Mazumder also oversees the operations of a research center enabling access to Census microdata on behalf of a consortium of institutions including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois system.
Mazumder previously worked at the Conference Board in New York and oversaw the transfer of the leading economic indicators from the Commerce Department to the Conference Board.
Mazumder received a B.A. in political science from New York University, an M.A. in economics from New York University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Bhash Mazumder
Senior Economist and Director, Chicago Census Research Data Center
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Chicago Fed Letter
- How Did Unemployment Insurance Extensions Affect the Unemployment Rate in 2008–10?
Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 285 | April
Download - New Perspectives on Health and Health Care Policy
Darren Lubotsky, Bhash Mazumder, Zach Seeskin | 2010 | No. 276 | July
Download - Does the Housing Slump Account for the Slowdown in Productivity Growth?
Bhash Mazumder, Ana Rocca, Daniel G. Sullivan | 2008 | No. 246 | January
Download - What Similarities between Siblings Tell Us about Inequality in the U.S.
Bhash Mazumder | 2004 | No. 209 | December
Download - Analyzing Income Mobility over Generations
Bhash Mazumder | 2002 | No. 181 | September
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Economic Perspectives
- What Is Behind the Rise in Long-Term Unemployment?
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder, Shani Schechter | 2010 | Vol. 34 | 2nd Quarter
Download - Does Education Improve Health? A Reexamination of the Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Bhash Mazumder | 2008 | Vol. 32 | 2nd Quarter
Download - New Evidence on Labor Market Dynamics over the Business Cycle
Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | Vol. 31 | 1st Quarter
Download - Family resources and college enrollment
Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | Vol. 27 | November | 4th Quarter
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Working Papers
- Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US
Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 2011-10 | November
Download - Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Daniel Aaronson, Fabian Lange, Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 2011-09 | November
Download - Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making (REVISED March 2011)
Sumit Agarwal, Bhash Mazumder | 2010 | No. 2010-16 | January
Download - The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement (REVISED September 2011)
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder | 2009 | No. 2009-26 | December
Download - Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon after Birth (REVISED, June 2009)
Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, Bhash Mazumder | 2008 | No. 2008-20 | November
Download - Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy (REVISED April 2011)
Douglas Almond, Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | No. 2007-22 | November
Download - A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States (REVISED March 2011)
Debopam Bhattacharya, Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | No. 2007-12 | March
Download - How Did Schooling Laws Improve Long-Term Health and Lower Mortality?
Bhash Mazumder | 2006 | No. 2006-23
Download - The Changing Pattern of Wage Growth for Low Skilled Workers
Eric French, Bhash Mazumder, Christopher Taber | 2005 | No. 2005-24
Download - Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S., 1940 to 2000
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder | 2005 | No. 2005-12
Download - Sibling Similarities, Differences and Economic Inequality
Bhash Mazumder | 2004 | No. 2004-13
Download - The Growing Importance of Family and Community: An Analysis of Changes in the Sibling Correlation in Men’s Earnings
David I. Levine, Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | No. 2003-24
Download - Revised Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
Bhash Mazumder, Brent Neiman | 2003 | No. 2003-16
Download - Choosing the Right Parents: Changes in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality - Between 1980 and the Early 1990s
David I. Levine, Bhash Mazumder | 2002 | No. 2002-08
Download - The Mis-Measurement of Permanent Earnings: New evidence from Social Security Earnings Data
Bhash Mazumder | 2001 | No. 2001-24
Download - Earnings Mobility in the US: A New Look at Intergenerational Inequality
Bhash Mazumder | 2001 | No. 2001-18
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