Meet the Researchers
Laura J. Feiveson
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Household and Business Spending Section
Research and Statistics
(on leave to Department of the Treasury)
202-452-2758
[email protected]
[email protected]
Education
- Ph.D., Public Finance and Macroeconomics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
- B.S., Mathematics and Physics, Yale University, 2002
Current Research Topics
- Household spending, Inequality
- Consumer behavior
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Department of the Treasury
2022 - presentChief
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2020 - 2022Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2018 - 2020Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - 2018Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2012 - 2015
- Bottlenecks, Shortages, and Soaring Prices in the U.S. Economy
Deepa D. Datta, Laura Feiveson, Ekaterina Peneva, and Gisela Rua
FEDS Notes (2022)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3153 - Lessons Learned from the U.S. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19
Tomaz Cajner, Laura Feiveson, Christopher Kurz, and Stacey Tevlin
Recession Remedies (2022) - Distributional Considerations for Monetary Policy Strategy
Laura Feiveson, Nils Goernemann, Julie Hotchkiss, Karel Mertens, and Jae Sim
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.073 - From Transactions Data to Economic Statistics: Constructing Real-time, High-frequency, Geographic Measures of Consumer Spending
Aditya Aladangady, Shifrah Aron-Dine, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, and Claudia Sahm
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.057 - Lifecycle Patterns of Saving and Wealth Accumulation
Laura Feiveson and John Sabelhaus
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.010r1 - Living at Home Ain't Such a Drag (on Spending): Young Adults' Spending In and Out of Their Parents' Home
Aditya Aladangady, Laura Feiveson, and Andrew Paciorek
FEDS Notes (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2301 - High-frequency Spending Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit
Aditya Aladangady, Shifrah Aron-Dine, David Cashin, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, Katherine Richard, and Claudia Sahm
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2199 - How Does Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Affect Wealth Concentration?
Laura Feiveson and John Sabelhaus
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2209 - A Not-So-Great Recovery in Consumption: What is Holding Back Household Spending?
Aditya Aladangady and Laura Feiveson
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2159 - Student Loan Debt and Aggregate Consumption Growth
Laura Feiveson, Alvaro Mezza, and Kamila Sommer
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2127 - The Effect of Sales-Tax Holidays on Consumer Spending
Aditya Aladangady, Shifrah Aron-Dine, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, and Claudia Sahm
FEDS Notes (2017)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1941 - The Effect of Hurricane Matthew on Consumer Spending
Aditya Aladangady, Shifrah Aron-Dine, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, and Claudia Sahm
FEDS Notes (2016)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1888 - General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions
Laura Feiveson
Journal of Public Economics (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.03.004 - Comment on 'The Impact of Unions on Municipal Elections and Urban Fiscal Policies'
Laura Feiveson
Journal of Monetary Economics (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2013.04.006 - Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, and William Gui Woolston
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.4.3.118
Last Update:
August 2, 2024