Jonathan Presler 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation jpresler@fdic.gov

550 17th Street NW, Washington DC 20429 jonathanpresler.com

Positions 

Financial Economist 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

2023-Present

Research Fellow 

Sinquefeld Center for Applied Economic Research, Saint Louis University

2023-Present

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 

Sinquefeld Center for Applied Economic Research, Saint Louis University

2020-2023

Research Associate 

Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

2017-2020

Instructor 

Economic Principles, Department of Economics, Syracuse University

Summer 2017

Teaching Assistant 

Department of Economics, Syracuse University

Economic Principles, Intermediate Microeconomics, Game Theory 

2016-2019

Education 

Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY

PhD in Economics, June 2020 

Dissertation: “The Makings of a Peer: Evidence on Within-Classroom Heterogeneities in Peer Effects”

Washington University in Saint Louis - Saint Louis, MO

Bachelor of Arts: Architecture and English 

Specialization and Interests 

Fields: Urban, Labor, and Public Economics

Research Interests: Housing and Consumer Finance, High Frequency Mobility Data, Peer Effects,

Economics of Education, Discrimination and Segregation, Homelessness

Publications 

“You Are Who You Eat With: Academic Peer Effects from School Lunch Lines,” (2022) Journal of Economic 

Behavior & Organization, 203, 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.029 .

Working Papers 

“Who’s Affecting Who? Obesity Peer Effects in NYC Public Schools”

“What Makes a Classmate a Peer? Examining Which Peers Matter in NYC Elementary Schools”

with William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, and Amy Ellen Schwartz.

“The Lunch Club: Does Exposure Increase Integration in the Lunch Line?”

with Amy Ellen Schwartz

“Is Discrimination Scarring? Effects of the September 11, 2001 Terror Attacks on New Entrants in the

Labor Force”

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Work in Progress 

“Migration and Seasonality of the Homeless in the US: Using Big Data to Understand a Big Problem.”

with David Lucas

“How do gas prices affect commuter rail uptake?”

with Christopher Rick

“Project Lead the Way Program Evaluation”

with Darrin DeChane, Dillon Fuchsman, Takako Nomi, and Michael Podgursky

“CORE 42 Program Evaluation”

with Darrin DeChane, Dillon Fuchsman, Takako Nomi, and Michael Podgursky

“Geographic variation in employment opportunities for military spouses”

with Christopher Rick

“Unevenly cooked: racial inequity due to climate change”

with David Schwegman

Conference Presentations 

“The Lunch Club: Does Exposure Increase Integration in the Lunch Line?”

Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) March 2022

“Obesity Peer Effects in NYC Elementary Schools”

Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) March 2021

“You Are Who You Eat With: Evidence on Academic Peer Effects in School Lunch Lines”

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) November 2019

“What Makes a Classmate a Peer? Examining Which Peers Matter in NYC Elementary Schools”

Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) March 2019

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Summer Workshop in Education and Social Policy May 2019

Professional Affliations (Past and Present) 

American Economics Association (AEA)

Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

Urban Economics Association (UEA)

Skills 

Python (SciPy, Numpy, Pandas, Geopandas)

Stata

QGIS

LATEX

AWS (S3, EC2, Athena, Glue)

MATLAB

Referee Service 

Journal of Population Economics 

Citizenship 

United States

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