Shanthi Ramnath
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor
About
Shanthi Ramnath is a senior economist and economic advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a member of the Chicago Fed’s Insurance Initiative. In that role, she works on topics related to insurance and its impact on household decision making. Her research has been published in journals like the American Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Before joining the Chicago Fed, Ramnath was a financial economist in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Ramnath has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Bank Publications
Chicago Fed Insights
Shanthi Ramnath | 2024 | May
Chicago Fed Letter
Shanthi Ramnath, Will Jeziorski | 2021 | No. 460 | September
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Andy Polacek, Shanthi Ramnath | 2021 | No. 451 | February
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Shanthi Ramnath | 2020 | No. 440 | May
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Itzik Fadlon, Shanthi Ramnath, Patricia K. Tong, Lisa Camner McKay | 2020 | No. 438 | May
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John Fernald, Shanthi Ramnath | 2003 | No. 193 | September
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Economic Perspectives
John Fernald, Shanthi Ramnath | 2004 | Vol. 28 | No. 1 | January
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John Fernald, Shanthi Ramnath | 2004 | Vol. 28 | No. 1 | January
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Policy Brief
Shanthi Ramnath | 2022 | October
Working papers
Working Papers
Bradley Heim, Ithai Lurie, Elena Patel, Shanthi Ramnath | 2023 | No. 2023-41 | November
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Tanya Byker, Elena Patel, Shanthi Ramnath | 2023 | No. 2023-14 | April
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Lucas Goodman, Anita Mukherjee, Shanthi Ramnath | 2022 | No. 2022-50 | October
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Selected External Publications
Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books
Coyne, David, Itzik Fadlon, Shanthi Ramnath, and Patricia K. Tong, 2024, “Household labor supply and the value of Social Security survivors benefit,” American Economic Review, Vol. 114, No. 5, May, pp. 1248-1280. 20240501050000
DeBacker, Jason, Vasia Panousi, and Shanthi Ramnath, 2023, “A risky venture: Income dynamics among pass-through business owners,” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 1, January, pp. 444–474. 20230101060000
Goodman, Lucas, Anita Mukherjee, and Shanthi Ramnath, 2023, “Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults,” Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 148, No. 1, April, pp. 47–68. 20230401050000
Goda, Gopi Shah, Damon Jones, and Shanthi Ramnath, 2022, “Temporary and permanent effects of withdrawal penalties on retirement savings accounts,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 215, 104734, November. 20221101050000
Heim, Bradley T., Gillian Hunter, Adam Isen, Ithai Z. Lurie, and Shanthi Ramnath, 2021, “Income responses to the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from the premium tax credit notch,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 76, 102396, March, (accepted September 18, 2020). 20210301060000
Bailey, Martha, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel, and Shanthi Ramnath, “The long-run effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Act on women’s careers and childbearing: New evidence from a regression discontinuity design and U.S. tax data,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
