Peter Ganong

Peter Ganong is an Assistant Professor at Harris Public Policy. He studies how households manage difficult financial circumstances such as unemployment and having an underwater mortgage. He also helped start immigrantdoctors.org. He received a BA in 2009 and a PhD in 2016, both in economics from Harvard. He worked at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010 and helped to start the City of Boston’s Citywide Analytics Team from 2014 to 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2016 to 2017.