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Katherine Baicker
Katherine Baicker

    Katherine Baicker, PhD, is the Dean and the Emmett Dedmon Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dean Baicker serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and as a Director of Eli Lilly. She has served as a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; as Chair of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission; and as a Senate-confirmed Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

    Dean Baicker’s research focuses on the factors that drive the distribution, generosity, and effectiveness of public and private health insurance. She is one of the leaders of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of the effects of Medicaid coverage. She received her BA in economics from Yale and her PhD in economics from Harvard.

    Schedule29 Mar 2024