Wolfe, Barbara (Lea) 1943-

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WOLFE, Barbara (Lea) 1943-

PERSONAL: Born February 15, 1943, in Philadelphia, PA; daughter of Manfred (an owner of a small business) and Edith (a homemaker; maiden name, Hermann) Kingshoff; married Stanley R. Wolfe, March 20, 1965 (divorced, 1978); married Robert Haveman (a professor), July 29, 1981; children: (first marriage) Jennifer Ann, Ari Michael. Education: Cornell University, B.A., 1965; University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1971, Ph.D., 1973.

ADDRESSES: Home—3410 Lake Mendota Dr., Madison, WI 53705. Office—7422 Social Science Bldg., University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, instructor in economics, 1970-72; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, assistant professor of economics, 1973-76; University of Wisconsin—Madison, research associate at Institute for Research on Poverty, 1976-77, research affiliate, 1977—, director of the institute, 1994—, assistant professor, 1977-81, associate professor, 1981-87, professor of economics and preventive medicine, 1987—, executive chairperson of Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation, 1985-92. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, fellow, 1984-85; National Bureau of Economic Research, research associate, 1987—; La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, professor, 1990—; Russell Sage Foundation, visiting scholar, 1991-92. International Institute of Public Finance, member of board of management, 1994—. National Academy of Social Insurance, member, 1990—; National Research Council, member of board of International Health, Institute of Medicine, 1992—; National Commission on Childhood Disability, member, 1995—; Social Security Commission, member of technical advisory panel on assumptions and methods; Panel of Economists on Educational Reform, member. Consultant to Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 1972-76; Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center, associate member, 1982-89; Wisconsin Consortium for Health Services Research, facilitator, 1988-93; Western Consortium for Public Health, member of national advisory board, 1992-94. Adjunct professor, Australia National University, Canberra, 2002-07.

MEMBER: American Economic Association (member of Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, 1990-92).

AWARDS, HONORS: Fulbright grant, Netherlands America Commission for Educational Exchange, 1984-85; grants from Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Agency for International Development, European Economic Community, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Veterans Administration, and Sloan Foundation.

WRITINGS:

(With Michael R. Olneck) Intelligence and FamilySize: Another Look, University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI), 1977.

(With Jere R. Behrman and John Flecher) A MonteCarlo Study of Alternative Approaches for Dealing with Randomly Missing Data, University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI), 1979.

Earnings Lost and Income Gained: The Equity andAdequacy of Transfers to the Disabled: or, How Well Do the Disabled Fare?, University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI), 1980.

(With Robert H. Haveman and Jennifer Warlick) Behavioral Responses to Social Security Retrenchment: Estimates from a Trichotomous Choice Model, University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI), 1985.

Health Care Expenditures for the Elderly: AreProspective Payment Systems and Community Care the Paths to Reduction?, University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI), 1985.

Health Status and Medical Expenditures: Is There aLink?, University of Wisconsin- -Madison (Madison, WI), 1985.

(Editor, with Hans van de Kar) The Relevance ofPublic Finance for Policy-Making, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1987.

(With Robert Haveman) Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children, Russell Sage Foundation (New York, NY), 1994.

(With Eric Hanushek and others) Making SchoolsWork: Improving Performance and Controlling Costs, Brookings Institution (Washington, DC), 1994.

(Editor, with Lawrence Wu) Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility, Russell Sage Foundation (New York, NY), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Poverty and Prosperity in the Twentieth Century, edited by E. Wolff and D. Papadimitriou, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1993; Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change, edited by Sheldon Danziger, Gary Sandefur, and David Weinberg, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1994; and Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Poor Children?, edited by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY). Contributor of more than sixty articles and reviews to economic and health-care journals. Associate editor, Journal of Development Economics, 1982-85; advisory editor, Social Science and Medicine Journal, 1983—; coeditor, Journal of Human Resources, 1985-91; coeditor of special issue, Social Justice Research, 1987.