The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute has announced the appointment of Thomas S. Dee, Emi Nakamura, and Joseph P. Price to its advisory board.

Housed in the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Institute conducts and promotes research that will increase economic opportunity and inclusive growth and help the Federal Reserve achieve its maximum employment mandate.

Thomas S. Dee is a professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. Dee’s research seeks to evaluate innovations in education policy using tools of causal inference. Dee is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution.

Emi Nakamura is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research investigates dynamics, fiscal and monetary policy, and the sources of business cycle fluctuations. Nakamura was the 2019 James Bates Clark Medal recipient.

Joseph P. Price is a professor of economics at Brigham Young University and the director of the BYU Record Linking Lab. Price combines machine learning and family history to generate large, longitudinal historical datasets to study the long-run impact of factors that influence health, education, and family formation. Price is a fellow of the Wheatley Institute.

Since its inception in 2017, the Institute has become a critical resource for understanding how participants in our economy find opportunity and share in its growth.

“Our advisory board is an important resource for the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute. It connects us to ground-breaking scholars and leaders who bridge rigorous research and policy conversations in their daily work,” said Institute Director Abigail Wozniak. “These advisers reflect the intellectual breadth and commitment to scientific rigor needed to tackle a mission as wide-ranging as the Institute’s.”

View the full advisory board: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/about/institute-team 

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System, the nation’s central bank. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is responsible for the Ninth Federal Reserve District, which includes Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis participates in setting national monetary policy, supervises numerous banking organizations, and provides a variety of payments services to financial institutions and the U.S. government.