Bio

Barbara Wolfe PhD a Professor in the departments of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Lafollette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an affiliate and past director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and an adjunct faculty member at the Research School of the Social Sciences at Australian National University. 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. Her research focuses on health economics and public economics more generally. Professor Wolfe is particularly interested in vulnerable populations such as those in poor families. Her recent research has included exploring the adequacy of resources of new retirees and the change in these resources over the first decade of retirement, the association of income and wealth with health, the impact of welfare reform on maintaining health care coverage. She has published extensively in economics and public policy journals and serves on the board of a number of professional organizations. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and Vice Chair of the joint NAS-IOM Board on Children, Youth and Families.

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