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Peter Ganong
Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
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....
Related Working Papers
- Aug 25, 2023Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
- Jan 21, 2022Should We Have Automatic Triggers for Unemployment Benefit Duration and How Costly Would They Be?
- Aug 24, 2020US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
- Jul 27, 2020Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? A New Method For Causal Attribution
- Jul 21, 2020Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data
- Apr 21, 2020Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks
- May 22, 2019The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
- May 22, 2019Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications
- May 22, 2019Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
- Aug 23, 2018Liquidity vs. Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession
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- Mar 7, 2023Friedman Forum – Housing Markets, Economic Security, and the Economy: A Conversation with The Atlantic’s Jerusalem Demsas
- Sep 30, 2021Junior Finance and Macro Conference 2021
- Apr 7, 2021China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics: Peter Ganong
- Jul 29, 2020Summer of Social Impact: Chicago Economics Research and Impact During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sep 20, 2019Housing, Household Debt, and the Macroeconomy Conference
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- May 12, 2020BFI Awards 16 New Grants for the Study of Economic Effects of the Coronavirus
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- May 21, 2019Why Workers Without College Degrees Are Fleeing Big Cities
- Jun 26, 2018Harris School of Public Policy’s Peter Ganong, an affiliated scholar of BFI’s Health Economics Initiative, studies housing vouchers as they relate to neighborhood quality and rent
- Apr 25, 2018Harris Policy’s Peter Ganong explains how migration helped mediate wealth gap in 20th century
- Apr 19, 2018Harris Policy’s Peter Ganong and Harvard’s Daniel Shoag cited in discussion of income disparity and affordable housing
- Apr 11, 2018Research Brief: Harris Policy’s Peter Ganong looks at “How Do Changes In Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?”
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