Jeffrey Clemens
Professor of Economics
University of California San Diego
Jeffrey Clemens is a Professor of Economics at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where he is also the director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a CESifo Research Network Fellow, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Clemens has a research portfolio spanning the economics of state and local government finances, fiscal federalism, health policy, and minimum wages. His ongoing projects include a set of analyses of the fiscal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated federal response. Through a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is co-organizing a pair of NBER conferences on the fiscal dynamics of state and local governments. Professor Clemens is concluding terms as a Co-Editor at the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Perspectives and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers.