Emily Pollard

Associate Economist

Economic Research Kansas City

Emily.Pollard@kc.frb.org

Curriculum Vitae

Emily Pollard is an Associate Economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She joined the department in 2016 as a Research Associate. Prior to joining the department, Emily received B.A. degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Carleton College. Emily’s research interests are labor economics and macroeconomics.

Selected Presentations

Economic Review Articles

Economic Bulletin

Technical Briefings

External LinkThe Kansas City Fed Labor Market Conditions Indicators (LMCI), 2023. Presentation at The NABE Foundation 20th Anniversary Economic Measurement Seminar. Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, D.C.

"Investigating the Recent Decline in Community College Enrollment", 2026
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"Assessing Labor Market Conditions Across Regions" with José Mustre-del-Río, 2025
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"Lifetime Earnings Differences across Black and White Individuals: Years Worked Matter" with Andrew Glover and José Mustre-del-Río, 2022
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"The Rise and Fall of College Tuition Inflation" with Brent Bundick, 2019
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"What Explains Lifetime Earnings Differences across Individuals?" with José Mustre-del-Río, 2019
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"An Alternative Version of the KC Fed LMCI Suggests the Level of Activity Was Little Changed but Momentum Decelerated Sharply in October" with José Mustre-del-Río and Johnson Oliyide, 2025
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"An Alternative Version of the KC Fed LMCI Suggests Little Change in the Labor Market in September" with José Mustre-del-Río and Johnson Oliyide, 2025
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"Labor Market Cooling Has Been Uneven Across Industries" with Karlye Dilts Stedman, 2025
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"Labor Shortages in the Healthcare Sector Have Eased, Which May Soften Price Pressures" with Johannes Matschke, 2024
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"Young Workers Fuel Recovery in Jobs Requiring a High School Diploma or Less", 2024
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"Foreign-Born Women Have Driven the Recent Increase in Prime-Age Women in the Labor Force" with Didem Tüzemen, 2024
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"Decline in Number of Workers with “Some College” Is Boosting Healthcare Wage Inflation", 2023
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"Why Has Monetary Policy Tightening Not Cooled the Labor Market Enough to Quell Inflation?" with Karlye Dilts Stedman, 2023
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"The KC Fed LMCI Momentum Indicator Suggests Monetary Policy Is Beginning to Weigh on Labor Markets" with José Mustre-del-Río, 2023
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"Negative Sentiment toward Spending and Declining Real Incomes May Meaningfully Lower Consumption" with Nida Çakır Melek, 2022
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"KC Fed LMCI Suggests Recent Inflation Is Not Due to the Tight Labor Market" with Andrew Glover and José Mustre-del-Río, 2021
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"KC Fed LMCI Implies the Labor Market Is Closer to a Full Recovery than the Unemployment Rate Alone Suggests" with Andrew Glover and José Mustre-del-Río, 2021
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"Inflation Expectations Limit the Expansionary Power of Negative Interest Rates" with Andrew Glover, 2020
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"As Manufacturing Weakens, Consumers Pull Back" with José Mustre-del-Río, 2019
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"Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Future Path of Wage Growth" with José Mustre-del-Río, 2018
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"Does the Recent Decline in Household Longer-Term Inflation Expectations Signal a Loss of Confidence in the FOMC?" with Brent Bundick, A. Lee Smith and Trenton Herriford, 2017
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External LinkA New Approach to Industry and Occupation Recoding in the CPS
TB 19-02, June 2019

Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium