Maude Toussaint-Comeau is a senior business economist in the community development and policy studies division of the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Toussaint-Comeau's research has been on the use of formal and informal financial markets by minority groups and the use of alternative financial services, such as check-cashing outlets and payday loan companies. She has also conducted a line of research on immigrant utilization of financial services; labor market adjustment of immigrants; immigrant impact on natives; homeownership attainment of immigrants; and immigrant self-employment and business ethnic networks. Her current research focuses on consumer sentiment and consumption expenditure and on diversity and firms' productivity.
She has been published in International Migration Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy and Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining the Chicago Fed in June 1998, she taught economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received a Ph.D. in economics/public policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.S. in economics from Temple University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Chicago Fed Letter
- Trends in Consumer Sentiment and Spending
Daniel DiFranco, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2009 | No. 262 | May
Download - Strategies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers—A Conference Preview
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2007 | No. 245 | December
Download - Self-employed Immigrants: An Analysis of Recent Data
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2009 | No. 213 | April
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Economic Perspectives
- Do Labor Market Activities Help Predict Inflation?
Luojia Hu, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2010 | Vol. 34 | 2nd Quarter
Download - Do Ethnic Enclaves and Networks Promote Immigrant Self-employment?
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2008 | Vol. 32 | 4th Quarter
Download - Variations in Consumer Sentiment across Demographic Groups
Leslie McGranahan, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2006 | Vol. 30 | 1st Quarter
Download - The relationship between Hispanic residential location and homeownership
Sherrie Rhine, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2004 | Vol. 28 | August | 3rd Quarter
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Working Papers
- Health and the Savings of Insured versus Uninsured, Working-Age Households in the U.S.
Jonathan Hartley, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2009 | No. 2009-23 | November
Download - The Impact of Mexican Immigrants on U.S. Wage Structure
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2007 | No. 2007-24 | November
Download - Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrants' Self-Employment Decision?
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2005 | No. 2005-23
Download - The Occupational Assimilation of Hispanics in the U.S.: Evidence from Panel Data
Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2004 | No. 2004-15
Download - The Importance of Check-Cashing Businesses to the Unbanked: Racial/Ethnic Differences
William H. Greene, Sherrie Rhine, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2003 | No. 2003-10
Download - Tenure Choice with Location Selection: The Case of Hispanic Neighborhoods in Chicago
Sherrie Rhine, Maude Toussaint-Comeau | 2003 | No. 2003-05
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