Featured Researcher: Corina Mommaerts

Corina Mommaerts is a research associate in the NBER’s programs on the Economics of Aging, Public Economics, and the Economics of Health and an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she holds the Brian L. and Brigid O. Hazen professorship in economics. She co-leads the research network on Emerging Challenges in Long-Term Care and Caregiving at the NBER’s Center for Aging and Health Research and is an associate editor at the Journal of the Economics of Ageing and at Quantitative Economics. 

Mommaerts studies the economics of insurance, long-term care, and caregiving. She has analyzed how the choice between formal and informal care is influenced by economic conditions, the out-of-pocket cost of formal care, and social insurance features. A current project investigates the effects of Medicaid’s transition to a managed-care delivery model for long-term services and supports in Wisconsin, separately considering the impacts on people living with dementia and without dementia. She has also examined the impact of firm decisions—such as the provision of accommodations for workers with disabilities—on labor market outcomes for affected workers. Her research has been funded by the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. 

Mommaerts earned BAs in economics, mathematics, and statistics from the University of Michigan and a PhD in economics from Yale University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Aging and Health Research at the NBER.