Graduate Student - PhD
About
Jamie Fogel is a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Michigan with interests in labor, economic opportunity, and urban economics. His current research includes combining machine learning and a matching model to improve definitions of labor markets and using administrative data to study the effect of neighborhood-level economic change on incumbent residents. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Jamie earned a B.S. in economics from the University of Michigan and worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Harvard Lab for Economic Applications and Policy. Jamie’s past research topics include consumption behavior during the Great Recession, the effect of foreclosure on students, using Markov chain models to understand labor market flows, and the causal effect of where children grow up on economic mobility.
