How Income Affects Health
Do housing voucher programmes lead to higher earnings, higher quality child care and less reliance on other public assistance programmes? What can a natural experiment tell us about the role of income on health? How does poverty influence critical brain areas among young children? What is the effect of growing up with a sibling who has a developmental disability or mental illness on outcomes as a young adult? Finding the answer to these questions forms part of Barbara Wolfe’s current projects. While visiting CESifo, she will work on a paper on housing policy in the US.
Ms Wolfe is a member of the Institute of Medicine, has served as vice-chair of the NAS/IOM Board of Children, Youth and Families, and has served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Advisory Committee to the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Economics in 2008–09.
Barbara Wolfe is the Richard A. Easterlin Professor in the department of economics, population health sciences and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). She served as Director of IRP from 1994–2000, and the La Follette School from 2006–08. Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economy Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, and Demography. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.