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Bhash Mazumder

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Bhash Mazumder

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

What Can Geolocation Data Tell Us About Childcare Use and Accessibility?
Daniel Hartley, Tori Healey, Bhash Mazumder, Jung Sakong | 2024 | July

Chicago Fed Letter

The Broadening Impact of Rising Wildfire Smoke in the United States
Mark Borgschulte, Cameron Deal, Bhash Mazumder | 2024 | No. 500 | September Download
Neighborhoods with Public Housing: Tracking Their Residents’ Financial Health and Visiting Patterns
Dawn Chinagorom-Abiakalam, Cameron Deal, Elainia Gupta, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Ryan Perry | 2023 | No. 488 | November Download
How Does Social Distancing Affect the Spread of Covid-19 in the United States?
Bhash Mazumder, Avinash Moorthy | 2020 | No. 442 | June Download
How Similar Are Credit Scores Across Generations?
Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Aastha Rajan | 2019 | No. 424 Download
How Health Insurance Improves Financial Health
Sarah Miller, Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhash Mazumder, Ashley Wong, Lisa Camner McKay | 2019 | No. 420 Download
Have Borrowers Recovered from Foreclosures during the Great Recession?
Sharada Dharmasankar, Bhash Mazumder | 2016 | No. 370 Download
Inequality in Skills and the Great Gatsby Curve
Bhash Mazumder | 2015 | No. 330 Download
Is There a Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market?
Jason Faberman, Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 300 | July Download
Is Intergenerational Economic Mobility Lower Now Than in the Past?
Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 297 | April Download
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 Download

Economic Perspectives

How Did the Great Recession Affect Payday Loans?
Sumit Agarwal, Tal Gross, Bhash Mazumder | 2016 | Vol. 40 | No. 2 Download
Black–White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S.
Bhash Mazumder | 2014 | Vol. 38 Download
What Is Behind the Rise in Long-Term Unemployment?
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder, Shani Schechter | 2010 | Vol. 34 | No. 2 | 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 Download
Family resources and college enrollment
Bhash Mazumder | 2003 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 | November | 4th Quarter Download

Policy Brief

Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States
Bhash Mazumder | 2022 | April
New Data on Thousands of U.S. Neighborhoods Shows Direct Impact of Redlining from 1930 to Today
Daniel Aaronson, Bhash Mazumder, Daniel Hartley | 2022 | February

Working papers

Working Papers

Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era
Daniel Aaronson, Mark Borgschulte, Sunny Liu, Bhash Mazumder | 2024 | No. 2024-06 | March Download
The Lasting Impact of Historical Residential Security Maps on Experienced Segregation
Daniel Aaronson, Joel Kaiyuan Han, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder | 2023 | No. 2023-33 | September Download
The Effects of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Labor Market Activity and Credit Outcomes
Sumedha Gupta, Bhash Mazumder | 2023 | No. 2023-13 | March Download
The Long-run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children
Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Martha Stinson | 2022 | No. 2022-13 | April Download
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches
Nathan Deutscher, Bhash Mazumder | 2021 | No. 2021-09 | June Download
The Effects of the Great Migration on Urban Renewal (REVISED April 2021)
Ying Shi, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Aastha Rajan | 2021 | No. 2021-04 | February Download
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom (REVISED February 25, 2021)
Panka Bencsik, Timothy Halliday, Bhash Mazumder | 2021 | No. 2021-03 | February Download
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps on Place-Based Measures of Economic Opportunity and Socioeconomic Success
Daniel Aaronson, Jacob Faber , Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder, Patrick Sharkey | 2020 | No. 2020-33 | December Download
Social Interventions, Health and Wellbeing: The Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program (REVISED July 2020)
Bhash Mazumder, Maria Fernanda Rosales, Margaret Triyana | 2019 | No. 2019-09 Download
Intergenerational Mobility in Self-Reported Health Status in the US (REVISED July 2020)
Timothy Halliday, Bhash Mazumder, Ashley Wong | 2018 | No. 2018-02 Download
The Effects of the 1930s HOLC "Redlining" Maps (REVISED August 2020)
Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhash Mazumder | 2017 | No. 2017-12 Download
The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility After 1980 (REVISED January 14, 2022)
Jonathan Davis, Bhash Mazumder | 2017 | No. 2017-05 Download
The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Wellbeing (Revised August 2017)
Luojia Hu, Robert Kaestner, Bhash Mazumder, Sarah Miller, Ashley Wong | 2016 | No. 2016-10 Download
Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the U.S.: Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data (Revised September 2015)
Bhash Mazumder | 2015 | No. 2015-04 | June Download

Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, Bhash Mazumder | 2014 | No. 2014-28 | December Download
The Effects of the Massachusetts Health Reform on Financial Distress (Revised July 2015)
Bhash Mazumder, Sarah Miller | 2014 | No. 2014-01 | January Download
Fetal Origins and Parental Responses (REVISED January 2013)
Douglas Almond , Bhash Mazumder | 2012 | No. 2012-14 | November Download
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 (REVISED June 2012)
Daniel Aaronson, Fabian Lange, Bhash Mazumder | 2011 | No. 2011-09 | November Download
Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making (REVISED April 2012)
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 | 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 Download

Presentations and Other Resources

Interview

Income Disparity

Interview on WTTW-Chicago's Chicago Tonight about the the relationship between income disparity and blue-collar/white-collar professions.

October 9, 2014

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