Hamish Low
Senior Economist and Economic Advisor
About
Hamish Low is a senior economist and economic advisor in the microeconomics team in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Prior to joining the Fed, Low was the James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College, and before that, professor of economics at the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge. Low is also a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Low holds a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in economics from University College London.
His research agenda sits within the broad fields of public economics and labor economics, and is focused on understanding the risks that individuals and families face and the choices that they make (or don't) to insure themselves. This includes risks that are primarily economic and those due to health shocks and changes in family structures. A key part of this agenda has been to understand the role of government in mitigating the uncertainty. He has published widely in the top outlets in economics including Econometrica, the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy.
