Jackson Mejia

Sep 30, 2024 | nationalreview.com | Jon Hartley |Jackson Mejia |Michael Toth

May 19, 2024 | freopp.org | Jackson Mejia |Jon Hartley

Pacific states have experienced the highest inflation, while the Plains states have experienced the lowest. By Jackson Mejia and Jon HartleyExecutive SummaryDiscussions about inflation almost always focus on how inflation affects the average consumer. But inflation affects different people differently. For example, our previous research shows that inflation disproportionately adversely affects lower-income households, especially over a longer time horizon.

Jun 30, 2023 | blog.freopp.org | Jackson Mejia

Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee and University of Chicago economist Chad Syverson persuasively argue in a new paper that housing construction productivity has followed a “strange and awful path” that cannot be explained with mismeasurement. Using a variety of survey methods, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor productivity by estimating output per worker at the sector level.