Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT): Staff Biography

Barbara Schone, Ph.D.

Position
Economist, 1991

Related Experience
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Program (concurrent)
Assistant Professor, Economics, Vanderbilt University, 1989-1991

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia

Research Interests
Employment-related health insurance
Models of family decision making (related to long term care)

Current Research Projects
Siblings' Behavior and Asymmetric Information: A New Test of the Motives for Intergenerational Transfers (with Liliana Pezzin)
Shorter versus Longer periods of Uninsurance: Do They Affect Preventive Service Use? (with Heather Bednarek)
Implications of Proxy for Self-Reports of Health Status (with Heather Bednarek)

Technical Assistance and Survey Contributions
Aging Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Chair, Long-term Care Analytic Group, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Disparities Report Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Survey Experience
MEPS, National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES), Assets and Health Dynamics of the Elderly Survey (AHEAD), National Bureau of Economic Research, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged Survey (NBER-HRCA), Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Awards
New Investigator Award for Excellence in Research in Aging and Disability, Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association
T.R. Snavely Dissertation Award
Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Director's Award of Merit, AHRQ

Referee Experience
Health Affairs, Inquiry, Journal of Aging and Health, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Human Resources, Medical Care, Social Science and Medicine, Southern Economic Journal

Publications

Select for a bibliography of articles and reports by Barbara Schone.

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