Center for Aging and Health Research
The NBER Center for Aging and Health Research has three primary aims. The first is to coordinate research on health and aging issues at the NBER, notably through research networks on high-priority themes including:
- The Economics of COVID-19
- Health and Healthcare Variations Across the Population
- Applications of Machine Learning in Health Care
- The Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Emerging Challenges in Long-Term Care in the U.S. and Around the World
- The Dynamics of the Health Care Ecosystem
The second aim is to stimulate research development on new topics in health and aging through Center Pilot Projects that systematically advance the science toward the most pressing questions of the day.
The third aim is to disseminate research findings in both scientific and non-technical outlets including the NBER Bulletin on Health and its predecessor the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health.
The NBER Center is one of eleven Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging funded by the National Institute on Aging.
This Center is supported by the National Institute on Aging under grant number P30AG012810.
Investigators
David Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. His research interests include the determinants of health status and longevity, the economics of health care delivery, and health policy.
Karen Joynt Maddox is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, and Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests include improving the quality, safety, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare, particularly for older adults. Her work examines state and federal policies such as Medicaid and Medicare, as well as a range of value-based and alternative payment models.
Supported by the National Institute on Aging grants #P30AG012810, #3P30AG012810-25S1, #3P30AG012810-25S2, #3P30AG012810-25S3, #3P30AG012810-27S1, #3P30AG012810-27S2, #4029F.28.00.20, #P30AG012810-28S4, #P30AG012810-28S2, #P30AG012810-28S3, and #P30AG012810-28S5
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CITATION: JAMA April 2019, pp. 1491–1501
CITATION: Molecular Psychiatry May 2020
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