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Journal Articles
Benjamin, D.J., O. Heffetz, Miles Kimball, and N. Szembrot. Forthcoming. "Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. NIHMSID: NIHMS457750.
Benjamin, Daniel J., Miles Kimball, O. Heffetz, and A. Rees-Jones. 2012. "What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?" American Economic Review, 102(5): 2083-2110. PMCID: PMC3532045. DOI. Abstract.
Tsutsui, Y., Miles Kimball, and F. Ohtake. 2010. "Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?" European Journal of Political Economy, 26(1): 12-24. DOI. Abstract.
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. PMCID: PMC2995549. DOI. Abstract.
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. PMCID: PMC2913051. DOI. Abstract.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(483): 1028-1038. PMCID: PMC2856097. DOI. Abstract.
Barsky, R.B., C.L. House, and Miles Kimball. 2007. "Sticky-price models and durable goods." American Economic Review, 97(3): 984-998. DOI. Abstract.
Zivin, Kara, Miles Kimball, 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. PMCID: PMC2089109. DOI. Abstract.
Basu, S., J. Fernald, and Miles Kimball. 2006. "Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?" American Economic Review, 96(5): 1418-1448. DOI. Abstract.
Elmendorf, E., and Miles Kimball. 2000. "Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets." International Economic Review, 41(August): 801-832.
PSC Reports
Barsky, Bob, Miles Kimball, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 1993. "An Experimental Approach to Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity in the Health and Retirement Study." AHEAD/HRS Report No. 94-019. December 1993. Abstract.
Other Reports
Kimball, Miles, Helen Levy, Fumio Ohtake, and Yoshiro Tsutsui. 2006. "Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina." NBER Working Paper No. 12062.