Lindsay Jacobs
Assistant Professor
2444 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
About
Lindsay Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs. She specializes in labor economics, with an emphasis on older populations. Her current research projects look at retirement preparedness and modeling the interactions among health, job tasks, and labor supply decisions.
Prior to joining La Follette, she was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, Economics
- M.S., Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Economics
- B.A., Wittenberg University, Mathematics and Economics
Courses
Public affairs courses taught by Lindsay Jacobs:
PA 380 Analytic Tools for Public Policy
PA 880 Microeconomic Policy Analysis
PA 974 Aging and Public Policy