1. Claudia Rae Sahm is an American economist, currently serving as Chief Economist for New Century Advisors.
17 Facts About Claudia Sahm
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Claudia Sahm is best known for the development of the Sahm rule, a Federal Reserve Economic Data indicator for identifying recessions in real-time.
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In 1998, Claudia Sahm received a bachelor's degree in economics from Denison University, where she studied political science and German.
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From 1998 to 1999, Claudia Sahm was a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University of Dresden, where she studied economic transitions in post-socialist countries.
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From 1999 to 2001, Claudia Sahm worked at the Brookings Institution as a research assistant.
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In 2007, Claudia Sahm began working at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as an economist, where her work was focused on examining consumer spending.
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Claudia Sahm was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers for the Obama administration, where she worked on macroeconomic developments and housing policy from 2015 to 2016.
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Claudia Sahm studied the impact of unusual weather on economic data.
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Claudia Sahm showed that people were less willing to take economic risks as they age.
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In September 2017 Claudia Sahm was promoted to Section Chief of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs.
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In September 2020, Claudia Sahm joined Bloomberg Opinion as a contributor and in October 2020, she joined The New York Times as a Contributing Opinion Writer.
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Claudia Sahm is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
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Claudia Sahm conducts research in macroeconomics with a focus on business cycles, fiscal stimulus and consumer behavior.
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Claudia Sahm's research has appeared in numerous FEDS notes, books, and major academic journals.
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Claudia Sahm maintains the economics blog MacroMom and economics newsletter Stay-At-Home Macro.
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Claudia Sahm is known for her critiques of the culture of the economics profession, citing many specific examples of bullying and harassment she experienced, observed, or had reported to her by others, often directed at female and minority economists.
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Claudia Sahm was married to Patrick Claudia Sahm, whom she met at Denison University, and with whom she has two children.