Jackson Mejia

I study topics in public finance and macroeconomics, and am particularly interested in the evaluation and design of fiscal policy.

I spent 2025-26 in the Council of Economic Advisers and will receive my PhD in economics from MIT in 2026. Next year, I will start as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Civic Leadership.

You may find my CV here.

Working Papers

Ramsey Alignment and the Postwar Tax System

Tax Policy and Capital Maintenance

Tax Incidence with Endogenous Exit (R&R, AEJ: Economic Policy)

Inflation Expectations, Investment, and the Mundell-Tobin Financing Channel (with Giuditta Perinelli and Alex Tagliabracci)

In Progress

Investment Subsidies and the Supply of Used Capital

Ramsey Alignment in Open Economies, with Pedro Martinez-Bruera

Elite College Admissions and Group Preferences in Admissions: Evidence from an Elite University, with Andrew C. Johnston and Nathaniel Winik

Publications

On Price Stability with a Job Guarantee (with Brian C. Albrecht) Contemporary Economic Policy (2022)

Notes & Code

Smooth Panel Local Projections (with Jonathan S. Hartley) [R Package] [R Vignette]

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