Dhiren.Patki@bos.frb.org
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Biography
Dhiren Patki is a senior economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department. He joined the Boston Fed in 2020 after earning his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. His area of specialization is labor economics and macroeconomics. Patki’s current research examines labor supply, consumption and savings decisions, the distribution of wages, and the integrated use of survey and administrative data.
Patki has an MA in economics from the University of Michigan and a BA in economics from Grinnell College.
Work Experience
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Senior Economist, 2025–
Economist, 2020–2025
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Michigan, 2020
MA, Economics, University of Michigan, 2016
BSc, Economics, Grinnell College, 2008
Publications
Journal articles
“Breaking the Implicit Contract: Using Pension Freezes to Study Lifetime Labor Supply.” Forthcoming. Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics.
Working Papers
“The Impact of Government Transfer Payment Frequency on Consumption: Evidence from Delayed UI,” with Michael Gelman and Zachary Orlando. 2024. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Papers No. 24-16. https://doi.org/10.29412/res.wp.2024.16
“Have US Households Depleted All the Excess Savings They Accumulated during the Pandemic?” with Omar Barbiero. 2023. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Current Policy Perspectives. November 7, 2023.
“Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories,” with Parag Mahajan and Heiko Stüber. 2022. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department Working Papers No. 22-12. https://doi.org/10.29412/res.wp.2022.12
“Finding Needles in Haystacks: Multiple-Imputation Record Linkage Using Machine Learning,” with John M. Abowd, Joelle Abramowitz, Margaret C. Levenstein, Kristin McCue, Trivellore Raghunathan, Ann M. Rodgers, Matthew D. Shapiro, Nada Wasi, and Dawn Zinsser. 2022. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department Working Papers No. 22-11. https://doi.org/10.29412/res.wp.2022.11
“Breaking the Implicit Contract: Using Pension Freezes to Study Lifetime Labor Supply.” 2021. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department Working Papers No. 21-7. https://doi.org/10.29412/res.wp.2021.07