Meet the Economists
Eric R. Nielsen
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 2014
- M.A., Economics, University of Chicago, 2010
- A.B., Economics, Harvard University, 2007
- Inequality, Childhood Development, Economic Measurement
- Econometrics, Causal Identification from Bunching
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2014 - present
- Male–female achievement variance comparisons are not robust
Carly Domicolo and Eric Nielsen
Economics Letters (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110853 - The Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States
Michael Batty, Jesse Bricker, Joseph Briggs, Sarah Friedman, Danielle Nemschoff, Eric Nielsen, Kamila Sommer, and Alice Henriques Volz
National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth (2022) - Unequal Worker Exposure to Establishment Deaths
Hugh Macartney, Eric Nielsen, and Viviana Rodriguez
Labour Economics (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102073 - A Dummy Test of Identification in Models with Bunching
Carolina Caetano, Gregorio Caetano, Hao Fe, and Eric Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.068 - The Econometrics of Early Childhood Human Capital and Investments
Flavio Cunha, Eric Nielsen, and Benjamin Williams
Annual Review of Economics (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080217-053409 - Measuring Aggregate Housing Wealth: New Insights from Machine Learning
Joshua H. Gallin, Raven Molloy, Eric Nielsen, Paul Smith, and Kamila Sommer
Journal of Housing Economics (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2020.101734
See also » FRB Working Paper (2018) - Updating the Distributional Financial Accounts
Michael Batty, Jesse Bricker, Ella Deeken, Sarah Friedman, Eric Nielsen, Kamila Sommer, Sarah Reber, and Alice Volz
FEDS Notes (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2810 - Correcting for Endogeneity in Models with Bunching
Carolina Caetano, Gregorio Caetano, and Eric Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.080 - How Do Children Spend Their Time? Time Use and Skill Development in the PSID
Hannah Hall and Eric Nielsen
FEDS Notes (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2577 - Should Children Do More Enrichment Activities? Leveraging Bunching to Correct for Endogeneity
Carolina Caetano, Gregorio Caetano, and Eric Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.036 - Introducing the Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States
Michael Batty, Jesse Bricker, Joseph Briggs, Elizabeth Holmquist, Susan McIntosh, Kevin Moore, Eric Nielsen, Sarah Reber, Molly Shatto, Kamila Sommer, Tom Sweeney, and Alice Henriques Volz
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.017 - Test Questions, Economic Outcomes, and Inequality
Eric Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.013 - How Can We Measure the Value of a Home? Comparing Model-Based Estimates with Owner-Occupant Estimates
Raven Molloy and Eric Nielsen
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2266 - A New Measure of Housing Wealth in the Financial Accounts of the United States
Hannah Hall, Eric Nielsen, and Kamila Sommer
FEDS Notes (2018)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2261 - Human Capital and Wealth Before and After Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Eric R. Nielsen
After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (2017) - The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality
Eric R. Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.041 - Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability
Eric R. Nielsen
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.040 - Commentary: Do Bids Equal Values on eBay?
Ali Hortacsu and Eric R. Nielsen
Marketing Science (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.1100.0593
seminar
11/5/2018Freddie Mac
Measuring Aggregate Housing Wealth: New Insights from Automated Valuation Models
conference
11/2/2018NBER Education Program Meeting
Test Items, Outcomes, and Achievement Gaps
conference
7/17/18NBER Summer Institute
Measuring Aggregate Housing Wealth: New Insights from Automated Valuation Models
conference
2/23/18Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and University of Kentucky
The Role of Enrichment Activities on Child Development: A Corner Solution Approach
seminar
5/2/2017University of Rochester
How Sensitive are Standard Statistics to the Choice of Scale?
conference
4/27/2017Population Association of America Annual Meeting
The Effects of Russian Housing on Fertility and Family Formation
conference
7/27/2016NBER Summer Institute
The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality
seminar
12/8/2016Federal Trade Comission
Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability
seminar
9/23/2016Washington University in St. Louis
Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability
conference
12/2/2015WCEG/Rockefeller Authors' Conference: After Piketty -- The Inequality Agenda post-Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Inequality in Microdata: Human Capital Before and After Piketty
seminar
11/27/2015DIW Berlin
Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability
conference
11/19/2015NBER Education Program Meeting
Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability
seminar
10/14/2013University of Chicago Applications of Economics Workshop
Ordinal Estimation of Income-Achievement Gaps
seminar
5/31/2013University of Chicago Family Economics Workshop
Ordinal Estimation of Income-Achievement Gaps
Referee
- Journal of Political Economy
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- The Journal of Labor Economics
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- The Journal of Human Resources
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Economics of Education Review
- Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
- American Educational Research Journal