Damon Jones

Damon Jones is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He conducts research at the intersection of three fields within economics: public finance, the field of economics that analyzes government taxation and spending, using models of choice to predict the effects of policy and economic notions of well-being to measure the policy’s benefit or harm to consumers; household finance, the branch of economics that focuses on the financial decisions, saving, borrowing and insurance, at the household level; and behavioral economics, the branch of economics that uses insights from psychology and empirical evidence to explore the ways in which human behavior deviates from the neoclassical model of consumer decision-making. His current research topics include income tax policy, social security, retirement and retirement savings, and the interaction between employer-provided benefits and labor market outcomes. Damon earned a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Damon serves as Scientific Advisor for J-PAL North America's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion portfolio.