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Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin - Madison
E-mail: jcbraxton@wisc.edu
Education
Ph.D. Economics. 2020. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
M.S., Mathematics-Statistics. 2014. University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.
B.A., Economics. 2011. Magna Cum Laude. Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6/2021-
Post-doc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8/2020-6/2021.
Dissertation Intern, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Summer 2019.
Assistant Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2013-2014.
Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2011-2013.
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Consumer Finance
Publications
“Changing Income Risk Across the U.S. Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter” with Kyle Herkenhoff, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt.
Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review.
“Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance” with Kyle Herkenhoff and Gordon Phillips. Journal of Political Economy, 132(9):2881-3214.
“Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss” with Bledi Taka. Job Market Paper.
American Economic Review, 113(2): 279-316. Lead Article.
Papers Under Revision
“Intergenerational Mobility and Credit” with Nisha Chikhale, Kyle Herkenhoff and Gordon Phillips.
Revise & Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies.
“Technological Change and Insuring Job Loss” with Bledi Taka.
Revised & Resubmitted at Review of Economic Dynamics.
Working Papers
“Rising Risk Among the Rich: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Interest Rates” with Kyle Herkenhoff, Chengdai Huang, Michael Nattinger, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt.
“Declining Population Growth and Wages."
Federal Reserve Publications
“Durable Goods Spending, Has it Become Less Sensitive to Interest Rates?” with Willem Van Zandweghe, 2013, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, fourth quarter, 98(4): 5-27.
“What Drives Consumer Debt Dynamics?” with Edward S. Knotek II, 2012, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, fourth quarter, 97(4): 31-54.
Presentations
2026 Scheduled: Arizona State.
2025 AEA, Duke, LAEF Macro-Labor, Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference (discussant), Philly Fed Consumer Credit Conference, Atlanta Fed, Pizzanomics, SED (session organizer), NBER SI – Inequality and Macro (discussant), Richmond Fed. Scheduled: Carnegie Mellon, CUHK Shenzhen, Dartmouth Macro Mini-Conference.
2024 McMaster, NYU (applied micro conference), North East Labor Symposium at Princeton, Central Bank of Brazil, SED (session organizer), Cornell, LAEF Macro-Finance (discussant), Philly Fed (visiting scholar), NBER Household Finance.
2023 Richmond Fed, St. Louis Fed, Bank of Canada, NBER SI (Inequality and Macro), Princeton, Opportunity Insights Mobility Conference.
2022 AEA, Federal Reserve Board, MEA, ERB Junior SaM, Barcelona Summer Forum (Macro & Social Insurance), SED, RDC Annual Meeting, UT-Austin, UC-Berkley.
2021 AEA (discussant), SED, NBER SI – CRIW, Minneapolis Fed, Ohio State, UW-Madison Center for Financial Security, SEA.
2020 Kansas City Fed, Cleveland Fed, UNC – Chapel Hill, Dallas Fed, Federal Reserve Board, Arizona State, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Econometric Society World Congress, SEA.
2019 MFA, CAED, BFI Consumer Finance, Kansas City Fed, SED, St. Louis Fed, Philadelphia Fed, Minneapolis Fed, New York Fed.
2018 MEA, SaM, SED, EMMMC, Midwest Macro.
Teaching Experience
Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD, 2nd year), 2022-2023, 2025.
Macroeconomics (MSFE). 2023-2025.
Principles of Macroeconomics (Undergraduate), 2021, 2024, 2025.
Honors Tutorial in Research Project Design (Undergraduate), 2022.