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Jonathan Davis

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About

Jonathan Davis is an associate economist in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Bank Publications

Chicago Fed Letter

Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate
Daniel Aaronson, Jonathan Davis, Luojia Hu | 2012 | No. 296 | March Download
How Much Has House Lock Affected Labor Mobility and the Unemployment Rate?
Daniel Aaronson, Jonathan Davis | 2011 | No. 290 | September Download

Economic Perspectives

The Upside of Down: Postsecondary Enrollment in the Great Recession
Lisa Barrow, Jonathan Davis | 2012 | Vol. 36 | 4th Quarter Download

Working papers

Working Papers

Internal Immigrant Mobility in the Early 20th Century: Experimental Evidence from Galveston Immigrants
Daniel Aaronson, Jonathan Davis, Karl Schulze | 2018 | No. 2018-04 Download
The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980 (REVISED January 14, 2022)
Jonathan Davis, Bhash Mazumder | 2017 | No. 2017-05 Download

Selected External Publications

Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books

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
Davis, Jonathan , and Bhash Mazumder, “The decline in intergenerational mobility after 1980,” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
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