The Fed - Laura J. Feiveson

Economist Household and Business Spending Section Research and Statistics

Ph.D., Public Finance and Macroeconomics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
B.S., Mathematics and Physics, Yale University, 2002

Current Research Topics

Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - present
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2012 - 2015

Aladangady, Aditya, Shifrah Aron-Dine, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, and Claudia Sahm (2016). "The Effect of Hurricane Matthew on Consumer Spending," FEDS Notes. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 2, 2016.
Feiveson, Laura (2015). "General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions," Journal of Public Economics, vol. 125, pp. 28-45.
Feiveson, Laura (2013). "The Impact of Unions on Municipal Elections and Urban Fiscal Policies: Comment," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 568-570.
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, and William Gui Woolston (2012). "Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 118-145.

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