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Meta Brown
Meta Brown
 

Economist
Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

Phone (212) 720-5589
meta.brown@ny.frb.org

 
Bio 

Fields of interest
Public economics, Labor economics, Consumption and saving, Human capital

Meta Brown is an economist in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function. She is a public economist studying families’ consumption and investment choices, specifically family structure and investment in young children; higher education finance, credit availability and parents’ role in human capital investment; and late-life asset decumulation and bequests. Other research includes laboratory analysis of search behavior. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Dr. Brown was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University.

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