Maggie R. Jones

Affiliate

Principal Economist, U.S. Census Bureau
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 has been a U.S. Census Bureau economist since receiving her Ph.D., first in the Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications and then 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.