Greg Kaplan is the Alvin H. Baum Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. His research spans macroeconomics, labor economics, and applied microeconomics, with published work addressing topics such as fiscal and monetary policy, labor market dynamics, risk sharing and inequality, consumption behavior, and household formation and migration.

Kaplan is the Lead Editor of Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics and formerly served as Editor of the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economic Dynamics. He is Co-founder and Chairman of e61 Institute, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He serves as an Economic Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kaplan received a Sloan Foundation fellowship in 2015 and the Central Banking Prize for Economics in Central Banking in 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2009.

At Chicago since 2016