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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 Sarah Smith, July 2010,
Do consumers gamble to convexify?,
Presentations
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
Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, September 2008,
Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/06
Previous versions:
Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, December 2006,
Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/27
Orazio Attanasio, Hamish Low and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos, forthcoming,
Explaining changes in female labour supply in a life-cycle model,
American Economic Review,
Journal Articles
Renata Bottazzi, Hamish Low and Matthew Wakefield, July 2007,
Why do home owners work longer hours?,
IFS Working Papers
, W07/10
Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, December 2006,
Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle,
IFS Working Papers
, W06/27
New version:
Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri, September 2008,
Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle,
IFS Working Papers
, W08/06
Thomas F Crossley and Hamish Low, November 2005,
Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution constant? ,
IFS Working Papers
, W05/25
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