Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2007 - present

Publications

• Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod (Forthcoming). "Check in the Mail Or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on how it is Delivered?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series.
• Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod (2010). "Check in the Mail Or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on how it is Delivered?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-40. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod (2010). "Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebates: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications," in Brown, Jeffrey R. ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 24. National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 69-110.
• Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod (2009). "Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2009-45. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Kimball, Miles S., Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro (2009). "Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation," American Economic Review, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 363-368.
• Sahm, Claudia R. (2007). "Stability of Risk Preference," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-66. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Bosworth, Barry, Gary Burtless, and Claudia Sahm (2004). "Distributional Impact of Social Security Reform," in Onofri, Paolo ed., The Economics of an Ageing Population: Macroeconomic Issues. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass: Elgar, pp. 193-226.

Presentations

• conference

  October 2010

  BCL/ECB Conference on Household Finance and Consumption

  Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

• conference

  July 2010

  NBER Summer Institute

  Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

• conference

  May 2010

  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Applied Micro System Conference

  Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

• conference

  January 2009

  American Economics Association Annual Meeting

  Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation

• conference

  September 2008

  Conference on Understanding Economic Decision-Making, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

  Cognition and Intertemporal Choice

• conference

  October 2007

  Measurement and Experimentation with Internet Panels, The Netherlands

  Measuring Time Preference and the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution with Web Surveys

Other Activities