How Extended Family Health Affects Household Financial Status

Jermaine Toney

National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Cornell University

NOVEMBER 29TH, 2018

12:00PM-1:00PM

Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153

As a postdoctoral scholar supported by the National Science Foundation, Jermaine Toney’s work builds upon the field of household finance. His current work examines the link between household financial status and health. His doctoral training was in economics. The title of his dissertation was “Essays on the Stratification in Wealth in the United States.” He offered these essays as a contribution to our understanding of wealth accumulation, reproduction, and inequality, with a particular focus on race. This contribution was informed by an analysis of the structural factors of wealth, including the role of intergenerational family connections