Barbara L. Wolfe, Ph.D.

 

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