Hamish Low, University of Oxford

Hamish Low is the James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

His research is across public finance, labour economics and macroeconomics. The underlying focus of his research agenda is on two broad set of issues: first, what sort of risks do individuals face over their life-times. Second, to what extent can individuals insure against these risks, through their private decisions over saving and labour supply, through their families and through government provided welfare and social insurance.

Key themes in his work are the interaction between different decisions and the dynamic implications of those decisions. For example, in his paper "Marriage, labour supply and the dynamics of the social safety net", that analyses the implications of the introduction of time limits, they show the importance of allowing for the interaction between welfare claiming, labour supply and divorce.

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