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American Attitudes About Vaccine Globalism
Dec 9, 2021
Katherine Grace Carman
Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office
Education
Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; B.A. in economics, University of Michigan
Media Resources
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Katherine Carman is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, director of RAND's Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on behavioral economics, health economics, and public economics. Carman is particularly interested in how individuals' beliefs, perceptions, and decisionmaking processes affect their choices. Currently she is studying health behaviors, health insurance decisions, and retirement decisions. She has a number of projects studying the impacts of COVID-19. She is also interested in the effects of peer behavior and characteristics on individual choices.
Previously, Carman was an assistant professor at Tilburg University and affiliated with CentER and Netspar. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Research Focus
Selected Publications
Maximiliane Hoerl, Amelie Wuppermann, Silvia H Barcellos, Sebastian Bauhoff, Joachim Winter, and Katherine Grace Carman, "Knowledge as a predictor of insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act," Medical Care (forthcoming)
Katherine Grace Carman, Christine Eibner, and Susan Paddock, "Trends in Health Insurance Enrollment, 2013-15," Health Affairs, 34(6), 2015
Johannes Binswanger, Katherine Grace Carman, "How Real People Make Long-term Decisions: The Case of Retirement Preparation," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(1), 2012
Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Katherine Grace Carman, "Measuring risk perceptions: What does the excessive use of 50% mean?" Medical Decision Making, 32(2), 2012
Silvia Helena Barcellos, Amelie C. Wuppermann, Sebastian Bauhoff, Katherine Carman, Daniel L. McFadden, Arie Kapteyn, Joachim K. Winter, and Dana Goldman, "Americans are ill prepared for the Affordable Care Act," PNAS: Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 111(15), 2014
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: KNX-AM
Commentary: The Health Care Blog; Newsweek; RWJF's Human Capital Blog
