Miles Kimball
Funded Research:
Comparing Survey Measures of Declining Marginal Utility III (Osaka University)
Comparing Survey Measures of Declining Marginal Utility IV (Osaka University)
Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from Hypothetical Shocks to Wealth (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Internet Interviewing and the HRS (NIA)
Weather and Happiness (Princeton University)
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Harvard University
Dr. Kimball’s main interests are business cycle theory, the economics of uncertainty, survey measurement of preference parameters, and evolutionary theory. He has published often in the areas of precautionary saving, labor market dynamics in an efficiency wage model, and the economics of uncertainty.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2009. "Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation." American Economic Review, 99(2): 363-368. DOI:10.1257/aer.99.2.363. Licensed Access.
Kimball, Miles, and Philippe Weil. 2009. "Precautionary Saving and Consumption Smoothing across Time and Possibilities." Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 41(2-3): 245-284. DOI:10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00205.x. Licensed Access.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(483): 1028-1038. DOI:10.1198/016214508000000139. Licensed Access.
Barsky, R.B., C.L. House, and Miles Kimball. 2007. "Sticky-price models and durable goods." American Economic Review, 97(3): 984-998. DOI:10.1257/000282807781267156. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Zivin, Kara, Kimball, Miles, J.F. McCarthy, K.L. Austin, K.J. Hoggatt, H. Walters, and M. Valenstein. 2007. "Suicide mortality-among individuals receiving treatment for depression in the veterans affairs health system: Associations with patient and treatment setting characteristics." American Journal of Public Health, 97(12): 2193-2198. DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2007.115477. Licensed Access.
Basu, S., J. Fernald, and Miles Kimball. 2006. "Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?" American Economic Review, 96(5): 1418-1448. DOI:10.1257/000282806779396201. Licensed Access.
Other Reports
Kimball, Miles, Helen Levy, Fumio Ohtake, and Yoshiro Tsutsui. 2006. "Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina." NBER Working Paper No. 12062.
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