Bhash Mazumder
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor
About
Bhashkar "Bhash" Mazumder is a senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. As a member of the microeconomic team, Mazumder conducts research in labor economics, education, health and economic history. His research has been focused in three main areas: intergenerational economic mobility; the long-term effects of poor health early in life; and black-white gaps in human capital development.
Mazumder’s research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been featured in the Chicago Fed Letter and Economic Perspectives.
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.
Bank Publications
Chicago Fed Insights
Daniel Hartley, Tori Healey, Bhash Mazumder, Jung Sakong | 2024 | July
Chicago Fed Letter
Mark Borgschulte, Cameron Deal, Bhash Mazumder | 2024 | No. 500 | September
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Dawn Chinagorom-Abiakalam, Cameron Deal, Elainia Gupta, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Ryan Perry | 2023 | No. 488 | November
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Bhash Mazumder, Avinash Moorthy | 2020 | No. 442 | June
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Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Aastha Rajan | 2019 | No. 424
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Sarah Miller, Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhash Mazumder, Ashley Wong, Lisa Camner McKay | 2019 | No. 420
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Sharada Dharmasankar, Bhash Mazumder | 2016 | No. 370
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Bhash Mazumder | 2015 | No. 330
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Jason Faberman, Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 300 | July
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Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 297 | April
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Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 285 | April
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Darren Lubotsky, Bhash Mazumder, Zach Seeskin | 2010 | No. 276 | July
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Bhash Mazumder, Ana Rocca, Daniel G. Sullivan | 2008 | No. 246 | January
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Bhash Mazumder | 2004 | No. 209 | December
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Bhash Mazumder | 2002 | No. 181 | September
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Economic Perspectives
Sumit Agarwal, Tal Gross, Bhash Mazumder | 2016 | Vol. 40 | No. 2
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Bhash Mazumder | 2014 | Vol. 38
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Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder, Shani Schechter | 2010 | Vol. 34 | No. 2 | 2nd Quarter
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Bhash Mazumder | 2008 | Vol. 32 | 2nd Quarter
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Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | Vol. 31
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Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 | November | 4th Quarter
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Policy Brief
Bhash Mazumder | 2022 | April
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder, Daniel Hartley | 2022 | February
Working papers
Working Papers
Daniel Aaronson, Mark Borgschulte, Sunny Liu, Bhash Mazumder | 2024 | No. 2024-06 | March
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Daniel Aaronson, Joel Kaiyuan Han, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder | 2023 | No. 2023-33 | September
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Sumedha Gupta, Bhash Mazumder | 2023 | No. 2023-13 | March
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Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Martha Stinson | 2022 | No. 2022-13 | April
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Nathan Deutscher, Bhash Mazumder | 2021 | No. 2021-09 | June
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Ying Shi, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Aastha Rajan | 2021 | No. 2021-04 | February
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Panka Bencsik, Timothy Halliday, Bhash Mazumder | 2021 | No. 2021-03 | February
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Daniel Aaronson, Jacob Faber , Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Patrick Sharkey | 2020 | No. 2020-33 | December
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Bhash Mazumder, Maria Fernanda Rosales, Margaret Triyana | 2019 | No. 2019-09
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Timothy Halliday, Bhash Mazumder, Ashley Wong | 2018 | No. 2018-02
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Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder | 2017 | No. 2017-12
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Jonathan Davis, Bhash Mazumder | 2017 | No. 2017-05
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Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhash Mazumder, Sarah Miller, Ashley Wong | 2016 | No. 2016-10
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Bhash Mazumder | 2015 | No. 2015-04 | June
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Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, Bhash Mazumder | 2014 | No. 2014-28 | December
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Bhash Mazumder, Sarah Miller | 2014 | No. 2014-01 | January
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Douglas Almond , Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 2012-14 | November
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Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 2011-10 | November
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Daniel Aaronson, Fabian Lange, Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 2011-09 | November
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Sumit Agarwal, Bhash Mazumder | 2010 | No. 2010-16 | January
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Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder | 2009 | No. 2009-26 | December
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Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, Bhash Mazumder | 2008 | No. 2008-20 | November
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Douglas Almond , Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | No. 2007-22 | November
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Debopam Bhattacharya, Bhash Mazumder | 2007 | No. 2007-12 | March
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Bhash Mazumder | 2006 | No. 2006-23
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Eric French, Bhash Mazumder, Christopher Taber | 2005 | No. 2005-24
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Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder | 2005 | No. 2005-12
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Bhash Mazumder | 2004 | No. 2004-13
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David I. Levine, Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | No. 2003-24
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Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | No. 2003-16
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David I. Levine, Bhash Mazumder | 2002 | No. 2002-08
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Bhash Mazumder | 2001 | No. 2001-24
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Bhash Mazumder | 2001 | No. 2001-18
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Selected External Publications
Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books
Harrison, Chang, Timothy Halliday, Ming-Jen Lin, and Bhash Mazumder, 2024, “Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 238, 105194, October. 20241001050000
Bencsik, Panka, Timothy Halliday, and Bhash Mazumder, 2023, “The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 92, 102805, December. 20231201060000
Deutscher, Nathan, and Bhash Mazumder, 2023, “Measuring intergenerational income mobility: A synthesis of approaches,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 61, No. 3, September, pp. 988–1036. 20230901050000
Mazumder, Bhash, Maria Fernanda Rosales-Rueda, and Margaret Triyana, 2023, “Social interventions, health and wellbeing: The long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program,” Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 58, No. 4, July, pp. 1097–1140. 20230701050000
Shi, Ying, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, and Aastha Rajan, 2022, “The effects of the Great Migration on urban renewal,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 209, 104647, May. 20220501050000
Aaronson, Daniel, Bhash Mazumder, Seth G. Sanders, and Evan Taylor, 2021, “Estimating the effect of school quality on mortality in the presence of migration: Evidence from the Jim Crow South,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2, April. 20210401050000
Aaronson, Daniel, Daniel Hartley, and Bhash Mazumder, 2021, “The effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘redlining’ maps,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4, November, pp. 355–392, (accepted October 20, 2020). 20211101050000
Aaronson, Daniel, Jacob Faber, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, and Patrick Sharkey, 2021, “The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘redlining’ maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 86, 103622, January. 20210101060000
Halliday, Timothy, Bhash Mazumder, and Ashley Wong, 2021, “Intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status in the US,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 193, 104307, January, (accepted October 7, 2020). 20210101060000
Miller, Sarah, Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, and Bhash Mazumder, 2021, “The ACA Medicaid expansion in Michigan and financial health,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 40, No. 2, Spring, pp. 348–375, (accepted April 8, 2020). 20210401050000
Miller, Sarah, Laura R. Wherry, and Bhash Mazumder, 2021, “Estimated mortality increases during the COVID-19 pandemic by socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity,” Health Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 8, August, pp. 1252–1260. 20210801050000
Deutscher, Nathan, and Bhash Mazumder, 2020, “Intergenerational mobility across Australia and the stability of regional estimates,” Labour Economics, Vol. 66, 101861, October, (accepted May 28, 2020). 20201001050000
Mazumder, Bhash, 2018, “Intergenerational mobility in the US: What we have learned from the PSID,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Vol. 680, No. 1, November, (accepted May 1, 2018). 20181101050000
Bratberg, Espen, Jonathan Davis, Bhash Mazumder, Martin Nybom, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, and Kjell Vaage, 2017, “A comparison of intergenerational mobility curves in Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the US,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 119, No. 1, January, pp. 72–101. 20170101060000
Halliday, Timothy, and Bhash Mazumder, 2017, “An analysis of sibling correlations in health using latent variable models,” Health Economics, Vol. 26, No. 12, December, pp. e108–e125. 20171201060000
Mazumder, Bhash, 2016, “Estimating the intergenerational elasticity and rank association in the U.S.: Overcoming the current limitations of tax data,” Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 43, February 25, pp. 83–129. 20160201060000
Mazumder, Bhash, and Sarah Miller, 2016, “The effects of the Massachusetts health reform on financial distres,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 8, No. 3, August, pp. 284–313. 20160801050000
Mazumder, Bhash, and Zach Seeskin, 2015, “Breakfast skipping, extreme commutes, and the sex composition at birth,” Biodemography and Social Biology, Vol. 61, No. 2, August, pp. 187-208. 20150801050000
Aaronson, Daniel, Joel Kaiyuan Han, Daniel Hartley, and Bhash Mazumder, “The lasting impact of historical residential security maps on experienced segregation,” Real Estate Economics, forthcoming.
Davis, Jonathan, and Bhash Mazumder, “The decline in intergenerational mobility after 1980,” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Hu, Luojia, Robert Kaestner, and Bhash Mazumder, “The effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 163, May 7, pp. 99–112, (accepted 2018). 20180501050000
Presentations and Other Resources
Interview
Interview on WTTW-Chicago's Chicago Tonight about the the relationship between income disparity and blue-collar/white-collar professions.
October 9, 2014
