Featured Researcher: Kosali Simon
Kosali Simon is the Director of the NBER’s program on the Economics of Aging and a Research Associate in two additional programs: Children and Families and the Economics of Health. She is one of the principal investigators of an NBER research program project, funded by the National Institute on Aging, about healthcare decision-making and outcomes for people living with Alzheimer’s disease. Simon is a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where she holds the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professorship and the Paul O’Neill Chair. She also serves as Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences.
Simon’s research examines how health insurance coverage, healthcare use, and health outcomes respond to changes in the healthcare system and the broader environment. She has analyzed the regulation of controlled substances and substance use disorder treatment, and the determinants and consequences of health insurance coverage. She is currently studying the role of provider-patient interactions in care for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) along with other questions at the intersection of healthcare provision and health outcomes.
Simon is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She currently serves as president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Previously, she was President of the American Society of Health Economists, and Director of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), a national mentoring program for female economists. Simon is an editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Simon earned a BA in economics and German from Hamilton College and a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park. Prior to joining the faculty at Indiana University, she was on the faculty at Cornell University and Michigan State University.
