Daniel Aaronson
Senior Vice President and Associate Director of Research
About
Daniel Aaronson is senior vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Prior to his current position, he led the Bank’s applied microeconomics group.
Aaronson’s research has primarily been in labor economics and economic history. It has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, and Journal of Labor Economics, and has also been featured in Chicago Fed publications, including Economic Perspectives and Chicago Fed Letter.
Aaronson joined the Chicago Fed in 1996 after obtaining his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He received his B.A. from Washington University in St Louis. He has taught microeconomics as an adjunct professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management since 2009.
Bank Publications
Chicago Fed Insights
Chicago Fed Letter
Economic Perspectives
Policy Brief
Working papers
Working Papers
Selected External Publications
Selected Journal Articles
With Brian Phelan, forthcoming, Economic Journal.
“Wage Shocks and the Technological Substitution of Low-Wage Jobs”
With Eric French, Isaac Sorkin, and Ted To, 2017, International Economic Review, forthcoming.
“Industry Dynamics and the Minimum Wage: A Putty-Clay Approach,"
With Fabian Lange andBhashkar Mazumder, 2014, American Economic Review, Vol. 104, No. 11, November, pp. 3701-3724.
*Winner of the 2014 IPUMS Research Award.
With Sumit Agarwal and Eric French, 2012, American Economic Review, Vol. 102, No. 7, December, pp. 3111-3139 (lead article). “The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes”
With Bhashkar Mazumder, 2011, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 119, No. 5, October, pp. 821-888 (lead article).
“The Effect of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement”Presentations and Other Resources
July 15, 2015
Contributions to Vox Blog
With Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches , Cyrus Samii, and Karl Schulze, 2017, "The effect of fertility on mothers’ labour supply over the last two centuries," September 15.
