Bridget Fisher is a researcher and communications specialist with a background in government and public affairs. Before joining SCEPA, she was a senior press officer in The New School’s communications department working with social science departments across the university. She came to higher education from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff for a member of the New York City Council and director of communications for the Working Families Party. On Capitol Hill, she served as press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. Congress. Bridget graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree in public communication and women’s studies. She received her master's degree in public administration with a focus on urban economic development from CUNY's Baruch College.
Economic Development, Structural Change and Women’s Labor
This paper shows that empirical support for the female labor force participation (FLFP) U-shaped trend is feeble and depends on the data sources used, especially underlying GDP estimates.
Race & Gender Differences in the Experience of Earnings Inequality
This paper shows that there are important differences in the experience of inequality that imply that race and gender are not separable when it comes to understand- ing the distribution of earnings in the US.
Financial Stress, Sovereign Debt and Economic Activity
This paper analyzes how the impact of a change in the sovereign debt-to-GDP ratio on economic growth depends on the state of the financial market.
What does Marikana tell us about Inequality in South Africa?
This paper focuses on the relationship between financialisation and inequality in South Africa.
Effective Demand, Exogenous Normal Utilization and Endogenous Capacity
Using Cointegrated Vector Auto-Regression analysis, this paper provides evidence that production capacities adjust endogenously to current output in the long run.
Migration Feedback Effects in Networks
This paper develops a comutational network model of migration.
Business Confidence and Macroeconomic Dynamics
This paper investigates the role of the state of confidence for the macroeconomic dynamics of two interacting economies using the opinion dynamics approach.
The Global Consumption and Income Project
This paper introduce two separate datasets, making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world.
Income Inequality, Indebtedness, and Post Keynesian Macrodynamics
A Kaleckian growth model is modified to incorporate working households who borrow to finance some part of their consumption spending.
Inequality, Debt Servicing, and the Sustainability of Steady State Growth
We investigate the claim that the way in which debtor households service their debts matters for macroeconomic performance.
