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Kevin Rinz is a Senior Fellow and Research Advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, he held research roles as an economist at the U.S. Census Bureau and as a visiting scholar with the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He also twice served in policy roles at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, first as a staff economist in 2013–2014 and then as a senior economist in 2021–2022. His research focuses on how policy can help people succeed in the labor market, and his work has appeared in journals including The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, and Journal of Public Economics.

Updates

2024-01-08: Posted a new paper, “The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Employment and Earnings” - download full paper, non-technical summary

2023-10-02: Launched Income Distributions and Dynamics in America, a data resource on income inequality and mobility, with partners at the Minneapolis Fed’s Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute

2023-09-11: Launched Briefing Book, a newsletter about economic policy

2023-07-17: Posted an updated working paper, “Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings” - download ungated version, NBER version, BFI research brief

2023-02-02: Posted a new paper, “Re-examining Regional Income Convergence: A Distributional Approach” - download full paper, non-technical summary, state income distribution data, data readme

2020-07-21: Posted a new paper, “Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings” - download full paper, non-technical summary, physician earnings data

2020-04-08: Posted a Q&A on understanding labor market data during the COVID-19 pandemic

2019-09-09: New working paper and summary posted

2018-09-25: New working paper posted

2018-05-28: New site created on GitHub