Kristin Butcher

Advisor

Vice President and Director of Microeconomic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Discipline Economics
Research Areas Education, Family, Health, Mobility, Policy and Political Economy
Personal Website Department Website
I am an applied microeconomist focusing on children, families, immigration, health, criminal justice, labor, social mobility, and higher education.

Kristin Butcher is Vice President and Director of Microeconomic Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Prior to joining the Chicago Fed, Butcher served as director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, where she was a senior fellow in Economic Studies. She is the inaugural holder of the Marshall I. Goldman Chair in Economics at Wellesley College, where she chaired the economics department for six years.

Butcher previously worked as a senior economist in the Chicago Fed’s Economic Research Department from 2002-2007. She also served as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and held faculty positions at Virginia Tech and Boston College, as well as visiting faculty positions at Princeton and MIT.

Butcher holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Princeton University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College.