Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2012 - present

• • Assistant Research Professor

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Political Economy Research Institute

  • 2009 - 2012

Publications

• Thompson, Jeffrey P., and Elias Leight (Forthcoming). "Do Rising Top Income Shares Affect the Incomes Or Earnings of Low and Middle-Income Families?" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., and Elias Leight (2012). "Do Rising Top Income Shares Affect the Incomes Or Earnings of Low and Middle-Income Families?" Finance and economics discussion series 2012-76. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., and Shawn Rohlin (2012). "The Effect of Sales Taxes on Employment: New Evidence from Cross-Border Panel Data Analysis," National Tax Journal, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 1023-1042.
• Smeeding, Timothy M., and Jeffrey P. Thompson (2011). "Recent Trends in Income Inequality: Labor, Wealth and More Complete Measures of Income," in Immervoll, Herwig, Andreas Peichl and Konstantinos Tatsiramos eds., Who Loses in the Downturn? Economic Crisis, Employment and Income Distribution Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 32. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald, pp. 1-50.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., and Tim Smeeding (Forthcoming). "US Country Case Study," in Jenkins, Stephen, Andrea Brandolini, John Micklewright and Brian Nolan eds., The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P., Tim Smeeding, Asaf Levanon, and Esra Burak (2011). "Income, Inequality, and Poverty Over the Early Stages of the Great Recession," in Grusky, David, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer eds., The Great Recession, Oct Ed. , pp. 82-126.
• Fitzpatrick, Katie, and Jeffrey P. Thompson (2010). "The Interaction of Metropolitan Cost-of-Living and the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits all?" National Tax Journal, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 419-445.
• Thompson, Jeffrey P. (2009). "Using Local Labor Market Data to Re-Examine the Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 343-366.

Presentations

• conference

  April 4, 2013

  Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 author's conference Paris, FR

  Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty

• conference

  April 12, 2013

  Population Association of America 2013 Conference, New Orleans, LA

  The Changing Demography of Wealth

• conference

  January 2013

  ASSA Labor & Employment Relations Association Session

  Inequality and Poverty in the Great Recession: The Extent and the Distribution of Mitigation through Taxes and Transfers

• seminar

  August 29, 2012

  MeCS brown bag seminar

  Does education loan debt influence household financial distress? An initial assessment using the 2007-09 SCF Panel

• conference

  May 18, 2012

  National Tax Association Spring Symposium

  The Effect of Sales Taxes on Employment: New Evidence from Cross-Border Panel Data Analysis

• discussion

  March 28, 2011

  UMASS/Boston Globe Panel Discussion

  Recovering from the Recession

• seminar

  October 6, 2010

  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's New England Study Group seminar series

  Prioritizing Approaches to Economic Development in New England: Skills, Infrastructure, and Tax Incentives

• conference

  February 2010

  OECD/IZA conference "Economic Crisis, Rising Unemployment and Policy Responses: What Does It Mean for the Income Distribution?"

  Recent Trends in Income from Wealth and Income from Labor: Stocks, Flows and More Complete Measures of Well Being

• conference

  November 2008

  National Tax Association Conference

  Cost of living and the EITC

• conference

  December 2011

  Economic Perspectives on State and Local Taxes - Lincoln Institute for Land Policy

  Prioritizing Approaches to Economic Development

Other Activities