Bhash Mazumder
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Bhash Mazumder is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He specializes in labor economics, education, health, and economic history, with a particular focus on intergenerational economic mobility, the historical causes of racial disparities in socioeconomic outcomes, and the long-term effects of early-life health on later-life outcomes.
His research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Before joining UC Irvine, he was a Senior Economist and Economic Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he contributed to public policy discussions and published widely in Chicago Fed Letter and Economic Perspectives.
Mazumder received a B.A. in political science from New York University, an M.A. in economics from New York University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.