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Jonathan Heathcote has been a senior economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis since 2008. Between 2006 and 2008 he was an economist in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. From 2002 to 2008 he was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Georgetown University, where he was promoted from assistant to associate professor in 2006. Jonathan has also served as an assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Duke University, and as a visiting assistant professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has been a visiting lecturer at University College London, and a visiting scholar at both the Minneapolis and Atlanta Federal Reserve Banks.

Jonathan received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Keble College, Oxford University, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. His work has appeared in several prestigious publications, including the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the International Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Theory. He is currently an editor of the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Macroeconomics, and an associate editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research currently focuses on understanding the evolution of cross-sectional inequality in wages, labor supply, income, consumption, and welfare.

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