Benjamin M. Miller

Benjamin Miller is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation. His research spans a wide variety of topics including environmental economics, international development, health economics, military modernization, agriculture, labor economics, regulatory affairs, econometrics, and beyond. Broadly, Miller's work looks at the resilience of infrastructure, energy systems, and health systems against environmental shocks, market-based shocks, and policy changes. One vein of research examines the causal impacts of natural disasters and econometric techniques for exploiting geospatial information. Another looks at the financial incentives created by insurance, taxation, and regulation. Miller's publications analyze the implication of flood insurance price changes in New York City, assess the sustainability of the market structure of the U.S. blood supply industry, examine how taxpayers' consumption decisions respond to complex tax changes, and even consider how children's books can be used to improve K-12 economics education. Current work examines the nuances of infrastructure finance policy, the opportunities and challenges associated with the U.S.'s new regulatory budget, the causal impact of weather warning systems on fatalities and injuries from tornadoes, and the drivers of army modernization costs. Previously, Miller worked as a statistician supporting the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation. Miller holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S. in economics from Purdue University.