Program Director
Christopher "Kitt" Carpenter is the E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the schools of law and medicine. His research focuses on the effects of public policies on health and family outcomes. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2005.
Featured Program Content
Specialized drug abuse treatment facilities serve as less-costly alternatives to emergency rooms in providing care to opioid abusers.
In the past 20...
Data on 800,000 commercially insured individuals in Philadelphia suggest that during lockdown essential workers were 55 percent more likely than others...
The number of applications and new awards for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) rose during the Great Recession and earlier economic downturns. Some...