Jermaine Toney

Research Fellow
jermaine.toney@rutgers.edu

Jermaine Toney is an assistant professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He was selected to receive the 2023-24 National Bureau of Economic Research Postdoctoral Fellowship on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Outcomes and was a member of the 2022-23 cohort of early career faculty fellows at Rutgers University’s Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. His work has been supported by an award from the Russell Sage Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Toney previously taught in the economics department at Queens College, City University of New York.

Much of Toney’s research focuses on household finance, health economics and stratification economics. His current work examines the effects of historical redlining and racially restrictive housing covenants, the transmission of socioeconomic status across generations, intergroup experiences in accessing credit and asset markets, analytic approaches to measuring the racial wealth gap, and how health disparities affect a household’s financial marketplace participation. His work has been profiled in Marketplace and The Atlantic.

Toney holds a Ph.D. in economics from The New School for Social Research.