John Bailey Jones
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
John Bailey Jones is a senior economist and research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He was formerly an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at SUNY Albany. Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. His principal research areas are applied macroeconomics and structural econometrics. Dr. Jones’ research interests include life-cycle consumption and labor supply, health economics, dynamic investment decisions and fiscal policy. In recent work, he has used the HRS and AHEAD data to: estimate the cross-sectional distribution and time series dynamics of health care expenditures; analyze how Social Security, Medicare and employer-provided health insurance affect saving and retirement; and study the saving behavior of retirees. Dr. Jones’ work has been published in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Projects
- UM23-02: Medical Spending Risk among the Elderly by Race and Gender
- UM21-09: The Impact of Medical Spending Shocks on the Wealth and Insurance Purchases of Older Americans
- UM20-10: The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Financial Resources and Medical Expense Risk at Older Ages
- UM19-11: On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure among the Elderly
- UM15-11: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans
- UM15-15: Retirement Savings in the US and England: How Important is Housing?
- UM14-05: The Determinants of Household Savings for Couples During Retirement
- UM12-12: The Costs and Benefits of Medicaid in Old Age
- UM10-16: Bequest Motives and Asset Decumulation at the End of Life
- UM07-13: The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior.
Publications
- Insurance Purchases of Older Americans (Research Brief)
- Medical Spending Risk among Retired Households by Race (Research Brief)
- Medical Spending Risk among Retired Households by Race (Working Paper)
- Insurance Purchases of Older Americans (Working Paper)
- How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age (Research Brief)
- How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age (Working Paper)
- On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure Among the Elderly (Research Brief)
- On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure Among the Elderly (Working Paper)
- The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans (Research Brief)
- The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans (Working Paper)
- Couples' and Singles’ Savings After Retirement (Research Brief)
- Medicaid Insurance in Old Age (Working Paper)
- Medicaid Insurance in Old Age (Research Brief)
- Medicaid Insurance and Redistribution in Old Age (Conference Paper)
- The Effects of Medicaid and Medicare Reforms on the Elderly’s Savings and Medical Expenditures (Working Paper)
- The Effects of Medicaid and Medicare Reforms on the Elderly’s Savings and Medical Expenditures (Research Brief)
- The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior (Working Paper)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- American University
- Arizona State University
- Australian National University
- Bocconi University
- Boston University
- Brookings Institute
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carleton University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City College of New York (CUNY)
- City University of New York
- Claremont Graduate University
- Columbia University
- Concordia University-Canada
- Copenhagen Business School
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- European Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneanapolis
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
- Federal Reserve Bank-San Francisco
- Federal Reserve Board
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Goethe University
- Harvard University
- HEC Montréal
- Imperial College London
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Ithaca College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kyoto University
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Max Planck Institute
- Michigan State University
- National Institute on Aging
- National University of Singapore
- New School of Social Research
- New York University
- Occidental College
- Ohio State University
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton
- Purdue University
- RAND Corporation
- Social Security Administration
- Southern University and A&M College
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Universidad de Chile
- University College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Bristol
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Davis
- University of California-Irvine
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of California-San Diego
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Essex
- University of Frankfort
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
- University of New South Wales
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Victoria
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Urban Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wayne State University
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale University