Resume

• 2008

  PhD

  Rondthaler Award for outstanding dissertation research; Hardison Award for best performance on microeconomics qualifying exam

  Economics

  Arizona State University

  W. P. Carey School of Business

• 2005

  Non-degree student taking graduate math courses in preparation for PhD program

  Mathematics

• 2001

  BS

  Business Administration

• Berthold Herrendorf

  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

  Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation

  Public Education Financing

  Earnings Inequality

  and Intergenerational Mobility

  Yash Mehra

  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly

  On the Sources of Movements in Inflation Expectations

  We develop a dynamic life-cycle model to study long-run changes in college completion and the relative ability of college versus non-college students in the early twentieth century. The model is disciplined in part by constructing a historical time series on real college costs from printed government documents dating to 1916. The model captures nearly all of the increase in attainment and ability sorting between college and non-college individuals between the 1900 to 1950 birth cohorts. Time variation in college costs

  the college earnings premium

  and the precision of ability signals all play a critical role for explaining different data moments and time periods

  primarily through their interaction with binding borrowing constraints. Our quantitative results imply that attainment is broadly driven by the interaction of changing real college costs and the rising earnings premium

  while ability sorting is driven by the earnings premium and increasing precision of ability signals.

  Factors affecting college attainment and student ability in the U.S. since 1900

  Christopher

  Herrington

  Arizona State University

  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  University of South Alabama

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Assistant Economist

  Served as research assistant for economists. Responsibilities included data collection and preparation

  writing computer code to solve economic models

  writing memos for internal use

  refereeing papers for publication

  and presenting economists and bank president with updates of national economic conditions prior to FOMC meetings.

  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  Assistant Professor of Economics

  University of South Alabama

  Research Analyst

  Research assistant for Prof. Edward C. Prescott

  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

  Graduate Assistant

  Aug 2008 - May 2009: Research fellowship\nJune 2009 - Aug 2009: Teaching Assistant for Managerial Economics (MBA)\nAug 2008 - Dec 2010: Research assistant for Prof. Richard Rogerson\nAug. 2010 - May 2012: Research assistant for Prof. Berthold Herrendorf\nSummers 2010

  2011: Research Analyst at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis\nSummer 2012: Instructor for ECN 313

  Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory\nAug 2012 - Dec 2012: Teaching Assistant for Macroeconomic Principles

  Arizona State University