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Barbara Wolfe is a Professor in the departments of Population Health Sciences,
Economics, and La Follette School of Public Affairs where she is currently
serving as Director. She is also an affiliate and past director of the Institute
for Research on Poverty. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1973 and has been a faculty member at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison since 1977. Professor Wolfe is an elected member of the
Institute of Medicine, Vice-chair of the NAS-IOM board on children, youth and
families and a member of National Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson,
Health Scholars Program. She is an Adjunct professor at the Research School of
the Social Sciences, Economics Department, Australian National University, where she is involved
with a cohort study on the role of income transfers in influencing the success
of young adults. She has been a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced
Study and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has also been a visiting professor at
the University of Bristol, the University of Munich and the University of
Amsterdam. Her current research interests include the role of income and income
inequality on health; exploring the role of income on the health of American
Indians (a study of the role of gambling dollars on health); adequacy of
resources at retirement and post-retirement; and several projects that focus on
Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Professor Wolfe co-directs
a training program in health and mental health economics.
Affiliations/Associations:
Adjunct Professor, Research School of Social Sciences, Department of
Economics, Australian National University
Member, Policy Council of the Association of Public Policy and Management
Member, National Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson, Health Scholars
Program
Recent Honors and Awards:
Guest of the Rector, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Spring 2007
Invited Plenary Speaker, 1999 International Institute of Public Finance Meetings, Moscow
Visiting Professor, University of Munich, 1998 and 1999
Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, UK
Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam, 2001
Visiting Scholar, Australian National University, 2001
Elected member, National Academy of Social Insurance
Representative Publications:
AThe Devil May be in the
Details: How the Characteristics of SCHIP Programs Affect Take-Up@
2005.(With Scott Scrivner.) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
24(3); 499-522.
ADo Newly Retired
Workers in the U.S. Have Sufficient Resources to Maintain Well-Being?@
2006. (With Robert Haveman, Karen Holden and Shane Sherlund.) Economic
Inquiry. Vol. 44, Number 2: 249-264.
ASCHIP Expansion and
Parental Coverage: An Evaluation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare.@2006.
(With Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan and Yoon Young Cho.) Journal of Health
Economics. Vol 25: 1170-1192.
"Assessing the
Maintenance of Savings Sufficiency Over the First Decade of Retirement" 2007.
(with Robert Haveman, Karen Holden and Andrei Romanov) International Tax and
Public Finance. 14, 481-502.
"Do
Youth Nonmarital Childbearing Choices Reflect Income And Relationship
Expectations?" 2007. (with Robert Haveman & Karen Pence & Jonathan Schwabish)
Journal of Population Economics. 20(1): 73-100, February.
“Health
Economics.” In The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 2nd
edition. Ed. by Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf. Forthcoming.
“Child Mental
Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited” (with Jason
Fletcher) Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming.
"Mandating
Insurance Offers for Low-Wage Workers: An Evaluation of Labor Market Effects."
2003. (With Amy Wolaver and Timothy McBride) Journal of Health Politics, Policy
and Law. Volume 28, Number 5, October. 883-926.
Social
Security, Age-of-Retirement, and Economic Wellbeing: Intertemporal and
Demographic Patterns among Retired-Worker Beneficiaries* 2003.(with Robert
Haveman, Karen Holden and Kathyrn Wilson). Demography. May Volume 40, Number 2.
369-394.
The Economics of Disability and
Disability Policy" (with Robert Haveman) in Handbook of Health Economics, Joseph
Newhouse and Anthony Culyer eds. Amsterdam: North Holland. 2000.
Courses Taught:
PHS 548: Health
Economic
PHS 848: Health Economics
Economics 845
Contact Information:
Barbara L. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
7422 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1393 USA
Phone: (608) 263-2029
Fax: (608) 265-3119
Email: wolfe@Lafollette.wisc.edu
Updated 11/8/07
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