Damon Jones, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has been a faculty member since 2010. He received tenure in 2022 and has emerged as an esteemed scholar in public finance, labor economics, and the intersection of economic policy and inequality. Assoc. Prof. Damon Jones earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009, and holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in 2009-2010 at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. At the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, he serves as the Associate Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility. He is also affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Assoc. Prof. Damon Jones currently serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Tax Journal, and has held editorial roles at AEJ: Economic Policy (receiving Excellence in Reviewing and Refereeing Awards). His research generally focuses on Public Finance, Household Finance, and Labor Economics, and has already been published in reputable journals, such as the Journal of Economic Literature, the American Economic Journal-Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and beyond the economics field the JAMA Internal Medicine. His research enjoys a considerable impact, currently recording over 2000 citations, according to the Google Scholar database.
Aside from his academic research, Assoc. Prof. Damon Jones is actively engaged in the wider economics community. He has been elected as a member of the American Economic Association’s (AEA) Board of Officers for 2025, and beyond others he serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), in the field of Public Economics and Aging, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association, and he was a member of the AEA Annual Meeting Program Committee in 2023. In 2020, he was awarded by the National Institute for Health Care Management the Annual Health Care Research Award.
Professor Jones is deeply committed to mentoring and expanding access within the economics profession. In his own words, his aim “as a professional economist is to deliver on that promise and make the process of learning, researching, and teaching economics accessible to those who want to be a part of the field. I do not know how much impact any one executive committee member has, but my aim would be to continue opening the door to those who are interested and also working to have the AEA be reflective of and responsive to a broad, diverse, and engaged group of economists”, ensuring that the economist discipline remains inclusive, responsive, and engaged with a broad and diverse community.
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