Curriculum Vitae

Senior Economist & Economic Advisor Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Research Fellow Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Research Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Visiting Scholar Becker Friedman Institute

James Meade Professor of Economics University of Oxford & Nuffield College

Head of Department of Economics University of Oxford

Professor of Economics University of Cambridge

Assistant, then Associate Professor University of Cambridge

Fellow Trinity College, Cambridge

PhD Economics University College London & Institute for Fiscal Studies

M.Phil Economics University of Oxford (George Webb Medley Thesis Prize)

BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1st Class) Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Public finance  ·  Labor economics  ·  Macroeconomics  ·  Life-cycle modeling with uncertainty  ·  Structural estimation  ·  Individual and family heterogeneity

Jakobsen, K., Jørgensen, T., & Low, H. "Fertility and Family Labor Supply." Forthcoming, American Economic Review.

Low, H., Meghir, C., Pistaferri, L., & Voena, A. "Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net." Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.

Low, H. & Pistaferri, L. "Outcome Tests and Screening Errors." Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.

Adams, A., Bayraktar, O., Jørgensen, T., Low, H., & Voena, A. "Joint Child Custody and Interstate Migration." Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics.

Blundell, R., Gu, J., Leth-Petersen, S., Low, H., & Meghir, C. "Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars." Quantitative Economics 17(1): 38–91.

Gallipoli, G., Low, H., & Mitra, A. "Consumption and Income Inequality Across Generations." Journal of Labor Economics 44(3).

Low, H. & Pistaferri, L. "Disability Insurance: Error Rates and Gender Differences." Journal of Political Economy 133(9).

Low, H. & Sanchez-Marcos, V. "Labour Supply and the Cost of House Price Booms and Busts." Labour Economics 90.

Crossley, T., Levell, P., & Low, H. "House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 223: 86–105.

39 published and forthcoming articles in American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Public Economics, and others. Full list in PDF.

Crossley, T. F., Fisher, P., Levell, P., & Low, H. "Eliciting the Marginal Propensity to Consume in Surveys." Chicago Fed WP 2026-04.

Low, H., Vomfell, L., & Waters, T. "Disability Benefits: Uncertainty, Waiting Times and Consumption Smoothing."

Board of Overseers, Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Council Member, Royal Economic Society

Member, UK Council of Economic Advisers, HM Treasury

Board of Editors, American Economic Review

Editor, Fiscal Studies