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Joakim Weill

Senior Economist Household and Business Spending Section Research and Statistics
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2022
  • M.Sc., Environmental Science, AgroParisTech, 2016
  • M.Sc., Environmental Economics, Université Paris-Saclay, 2016
Current Research Topics
  • Environmental risks, Disaster insurance, Social protection, Housing and environmental inequalities
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2025 - present
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2022 - 2025
  • Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets
    Jesse D. Gourevitch, Karina French, Carolyn Kousky, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Adam Pollack, and Joakim A. Weill
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2026)
    https://doi.org/10.1086/741732
  • Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information
    Joakim A. Weill
    American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2026)
    https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20230552
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2023)
  • Prospects and challenges of risk-based insurance pricing for disaster adaptation
    Joakim A. Weill and Jesse D. Gourevitch
    Nature Climate Change (2026)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02577-1
  • Hurricanes and migration: New evidence from credit bureau microdata
    Joshua Blonz, Spencer Bowdle, and Joakim A. Weill
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103180
  • Researchers' degrees of flexibility: Revisiting COVID‐19 policy evaluations
    Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, and Michael R. Springborn
    Economic Inquiry (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13273
  • Social Security and High-Frequency Labor Supply: Evidence from Uber Drivers
    Timothy K. M. Beatty and Joakim A. Weill
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.079
  • Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information
    Joakim A. Weill
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.066
  • Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets
    Jesse D. Gourevitch, Carolyn Kousky, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Christoph Nolte, Adam B. Pollack, Jeremy R. Porter, and Joakim A. Weill
    Nature Climate Change (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01594-8
  • Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke
    Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Jessica Li, Anne Driscoll, Patrick Baylis, Matthieu Stigler, Joakim A. Weill, Jennifer A. Burney, Jeff Wen, Marissa L. Childs, and Carlos F. Gould
    Nature Human Behaviour (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01396-6
  • Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America
    Michael R. Springborn, Joakim A. Weill, Karen R. Lips, Roberto Ibáñez, and Aniruddha Ghosh
    Environmental Research Letters (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8e1d
  • Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income
    Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, and Michael R. Springborn
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009412117
Awards
  • 2023

    AAEA

    Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

  • 2023

    FAERE

    Young Economist Best Paper Award

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Last Update: September 21, 2026