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Hamish is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of IFS. His research interests include life-cycle models, consumption and saving behaviour, labour supply, uncertainty, unemployment insurance, optimal taxation and computational methods. 
All available publications
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Cormac O'Dea, October 2011,
Household consumption through recent recessions,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/18
Press release:
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Cormac O'Dea, October 2011,
Young cut back their spending most in recent recession,
IFS Press Releases
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Cormac O'Dea, October 2011,
Young cut back their spending most in recent recession,
IFS Press Releases
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Sarah Smith, May 2011,
Do consumers gamble to convexify?,
IFS Working Papers
, W11/07
Thomas F Crossley and Hamish Low, February 2011,
Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution constant?,
Journal of the European Economic Association,
Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 87-105,
Journal Articles
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Sarah Smith, September 2010,
Do consumers gamble to convexify?,
Presentations
Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, September 2010,
Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle,
American Economic Review,
Vol. 100, No. 4, pp 1432-1467,
The American Economic Association,
Journal Articles
Hamish Low and Luigi Pistaferri, May 2010,
Disability risk, disability insurance and life cycle behavior,
IFS Working Papers
, W10/11
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield, April 2009,
The economics of a temporary VAT cut,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2009,
Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 3-16,
Wiley Blackwell,
Journal Articles
Press release:
Matthew Wakefield, April 2009,
Fiscal Studies symposium on the economics of VAT cuts,
IFS Press Releases
Previous versions:
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield, January 2009,
The economics of a temporary VAT cut,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/02
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield, January 2009,
The economics of a temporary VAT cut,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/02
Now published:
Thomas F Crossley, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield, April 2009,
The economics of a temporary VAT cut,
Fiscal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2009,
Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 3-16, Journal Articles
, Wiley Blackwell
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, November 2008,
Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/13
Previous versions:
Richard Blundell, Hamish Low and Ian Preston, October 2004,
Income risk and consumption inequality: a simulation study,
IFS Working Papers
, W04/26
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