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Michael Navarrete is an assistant policy adviser and economist on the survey methodology and statistics team in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His major fields of study are macroeconomics and labor economics with particular interests in measurement, inflation, and unemployment insurance.
Dr. Navarrete is an active member of the Re-Engineering Statistics using Economic Transactions (RESET) project, which aims to provide the architecture for re-engineering official economic statistics. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed in 2025, Dr. Navarrete was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was also the inaugural Alice Rivlin Dissertation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for Fiscal and Monetary Policy.
Dr. Navarrete received his doctorate in economics in 2024 from the University of Maryland. He received his bachelor of arts degree in economics and French from Williams College in 2016.
Updated August 2025
COBOLing Together UI Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Affect Aggregate Consumption
Michael Navarrete
October 2025
Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation
Michael Navarrete and Seula Kim
Kilts Center at Chicago Booth Marketing Data Center Paper No. 3-509
October 2024
COBOLing Together UI Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Affect Aggregate Consumption
Michael Navarrete
Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings
September 2024