Jeffrey Lin

Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Contact

Post: Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ten Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA  19106-1574

Phone: (215) 574-3441
Fax: (215) 574-4303

E-mail: jeff (dot) lin (at)
phil (dot) frb (dot) org

Web: My "official" FRBP page


Physical Divisions of the United States, showing fall line

Physical Divisions of the United States,
showing fall line on Eastern seaboard


Property value growth in
northwest Chicago, 1985–1991

About

I am an economist in the Regional and Microeconomics Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Research Department.

This site contains information and papers related to my research work. My main research interests are in economic geography, urban economics, labor economics, and technological change. 

Curriculum Vitae (pdf, May 14, 2012)



Publications

"Thick Markets and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities" (2012) (with Hoyt Bleakley), Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
[Published version] [Previous version: FRBP WP 07-23]
See "Urban Productivity Advantages from Job Search and Matching" (2011), FRBP Business Review Q1: 9-16, for a non-technical summary of this work. 



"Portage and Path Dependence" (2012) (with Hoyt Bleakley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (2): 587-644.
[Published version] [Previous versions: FRBP WP 11-38 and FRBP WP 10-27]



Technological Adaptation, Cities, and New Work" (2011), Review of Economics and Statistics 93 (2): 554-574.
[Published version]  [Supplementary materials] [Previous versions: FRBP wp 09-17 and FRBP WP 07-25]



"Precision, Bias, and Uncertainty for State Population Forecasts: An Exploratory Analysis of Time Series Models” (2007) (with Jeff Tayman and Stanley K. Smith), Population Research and Policy Review (26) 3: 347-369.
[Published version]



"Gentrification and Transit in Northwest Chicago" (2002), Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, in Transportation Quarterly, 56 (4): 175-191.
[Published version]


Last updated May 15, 2012

Home URL: http://jlin.org/

The views expressed on this site are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System.