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Jonathan Heathcote is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science, General Economics, and Accounting.

Their recent scholarly work covers topics including Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Financial Literacy and Retirement Analysis, COVID-19 epidemiological studies and impacts, Economic Growth and Productivity, as well as Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

Heathcote has contributed papers to several academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey, 2021, Journal of Political Economy
  • The rise of US earnings inequality: Does the cycle drive the trend?, 2020, Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Presidential Address 2019: How Should Tax Progressivity Respond to Rising Income Inequality?, 2020, Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Health versus wealth: On the distributional effects of controlling a pandemic, 2023, Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Optimal progressivity with age-dependent taxation, 2020, Journal of Public Economics

The venues where Heathcote has frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Papers
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Monetary Economics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Fabrizio Perri, Andrew Glover, Dirk Krueger, José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, and Giovanni L. Violante.

Best Publications

  • Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006 *

    Jonathan Heathcote;Jonathan Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

  • The Price and Quantity of Residential Land in the United States

    Morris Davis;Jonathan Heathcote

  • The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

  • Financial autarky and international business cycles

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri

  • HOUSING AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE

    Morris A Davis;Jonathan H Heathcote

  • Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Quantitative macroeconomics with heterogeneous households

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni Violante

  • Financial Globalization and Real Regionalization

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri

  • Consumption and labor supply with partial insurance: An analytical framework

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

  • Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

    Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

  • Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

  • On The Distributional Effects Of Reducing Capital Taxes

    David Domeij;Jonathan H Heathcote

  • The International Diversification Puzzle Is Not as Bad as You Think

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri

  • Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Incomplete Markets

    Jonathan H Heathcote

  • The price and quantity of residential land in the United States

    Morris A Davis;Jonathan H Heathcote;Jonathan H Heathcote

  • TWO VIEWS OF INEQUALITY OVER THE LIFE CYCLE

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

  • Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic

    Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;Jose-Victor Rios-Rull

  • Wealth and Volatility

    Jonathan Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri

  • Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

    Andrew Glover;Jonathan Heathcote;Dirk Krueger;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

  • Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

  • The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

    Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Why Has the U.S. Economy Become Less Correlated with the Rest of the World

    Jonathan H Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri

  • The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

    Jonathan Heathcote

  • On the Distributional Effects of Reducing Capital Taxes (previously: Factor Taxation with Heterogeneous Agents)

    Jonathan Heathcote

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni L. Violante
Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University
Kjetil Storesletten
Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota
Fabrizio Perri
Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Dirk Krueger
Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania

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