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Kelsey J. O'Flaherty

Economist Industrial Output Section Research and Statistics
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Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2025
  • B.S., Business Economics, Miami University, 2016
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2025 - present
  • Look Within: Demographic Grouping Masks Inflation Inequality
    Kelsey O'Flaherty
    AEA Papers and Proceedings (Forthcoming)
  • A New Reason to Hate Grocery Inflation: Measuring and Interpreting Inflation Heterogeneity
    Kelsey O'Flaherty
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2026)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2026.001
  • Why Households Hate Grocery Inflation and Other Essays in Economic Measurement
    Kelsey O’Flaherty
    Dissertations (University of Michigan) (2025)
  • How Much Does Home Equity Extraction Matter for Spending?
    Aditya Aladangady and Kelsey O'Flaherty
    FEDS Notes (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2535

  • conference

    January 2026

    ASSA Annual Meeting

    Look Within: Demographic Grouping Masks Inflation Inequality

Awards
  • 2025

    National Bureau of Economic Research

    Robert Summers Fellow

Referee
  • Review of Economics and Statistics
Professional Affiliation
  • American Economic Association, 2024-present
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Last Update: January 20, 2026