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Katherine Baicker
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Katherine Baicker's areas of interest include health care policy and health insurance finance. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Baicker was the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds appointments as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; as an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab; and serves on the Congressional...
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- Nov 24, 2019Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits
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