Maggie R. Jones

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Researcher, California Policy Lab and Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley
Discipline Economics, Public Policy
Research Areas Family, Income, Mobility, Race and Ethnicity
My research encompasses labor and public economics, focusing on patterns of income inequality and mobility by race-ethnicity, gender, and geography.

Maggie R. Jones received a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University in 2012. She is currently a researcher with the California Policy Lab and the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she worked as an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, first in the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications and later in the Center for Economic Studies. Her research focuses primarily on income mobility, income growth, and low-wage workers. Her contributions to public-use statistics on intra- and intergenerational mobility include the Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics Project and the Opportunity Atlas. Her research has been published in top economics and demography journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Public Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Demography.