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Research and Statistics Staff | Macroeconomic Analysis Section
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Claudia R. Sahm
Economist
Macroeconomic Analysis Section
Division of Research and Statistics

Contact Information
202-452-2291
claudia.r.sahm@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Macroeconomics
Consumption
Data Collection and Estimation Methodology

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2007
B.A., Economics, Political Science, German, Denison University, 1998

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2007-present

Selected Publications

  • ''Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation'' (with Miles S. Kimball and Matthew D. Shapiro), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, vol. 99 (May 2009), pp. 363-368.
  • ''Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses'' (with Miles S. Kimball and Matthew D. Shapiro), Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 103 (September 2008), pp. 1028-1038.
  • How Much Does Risk Tolerance Change?, Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-66. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2007.

Last update: December 4, 2009