Melvin (Mel) Stephens Jr. is an American economist and Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Economics Department and the

Ford School of Public Policy The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, often referred to as the Ford School, is the public policy school at the University of Michigan. Founded in 1914 to train municipal administration experts, the school was named after University of Mic ...

at the University of Michigan. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Academic Research Council of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His research is in the areas of

displaced workers Dislocated worker funding is typically used to help workers in events of mass employment loss. A dislocated or displaced worker is defined as an individual who has been laid off or received notice of a potential layoff ''and'' has very little chan ...

, household consumption, and retirement decisions. He has been nominated as an officer of the

American Economic Association The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members. History and Constitution The AEA was esta ...

Selected works

* Stephens, Jr, Melvin. "Worker displacement and the added worker effect." Journal of Labor Economics 20, no. 3 (2002): 504–537. * Charles, Kerwin Kofi, and Melvin Stephens, Jr. "Job displacement, disability, and divorce." Journal of Labor Economics 22, no. 2 (2004): 489–522. * Stephens Jr, Melvin. "" 3rd of tha month": Do social security recipients smooth consumption between checks?." American Economic Review 93, no. 1 (2003): 406-422. * Haider, Steven J., and Melvin Stephens Jr. "Is there a retirement-consumption puzzle? Evidence using subjective retirement expectations." The review of economics and statistics 89, no. 2 (2007): 247–264. * Stephens Jr, Melvin. "The long-run consumption effects of earnings shocks." Review of Economics and Statistics 83, no. 1 (2001): 28–36.

References

African-American economists Living people Labor economists University of Maryland, College Park alumni Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy faculty 21st-century American economists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American people {{US-economist-stub