Barbara Wolfe


Barbara Wolfe is an economist and the Richard A. Easterlin Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Wolfe is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. She is a research associate at the NBER, and the Levy Institute of Bard College. She is also an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics.
She obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Wolfe's research mainly focuses on health economics and the Economics of Poverty. Her works have been quote more than 19900 times according to Google Scholar.
She has published in the Journal of Economic Literature, the American Economic Review, Demography and the Journal of Human Resources.
Her research has been featured in NPR, The Atlantic, and VICE.

Selected bibliography