Biography
Kathleen McGarry is a Professor of Economics at UCLA and a Research Associate at the NBER. From 2007-2009 she was the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt, 1972 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and previously served as a Senior Economist at the White House. She has had fellowships from the Brookdale Foundation and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

McGarry’s research focuses on the well-being of the elderly with particular attention paid to public and private transfers, including the Medicare and SSI programs, and the transfer of resources within families. Her research combines work on the financial aspects of aging with issues related to health economics to examine insurance coverage among the elderly. She has studied the long term care, health, and life insurance markets, as well as the role played by families in providing insurance for their least well-off members. McGarry’s current work analyzes the importance of end of life medical expenses, particularly expenses associated with nursing homes and home health care, and differences in spending by disability status.

Research Interests
Economics of Ageing, Health Economics, Public Economics, and Insurance

Courses
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Curriculum Vitae
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Recent Publications
– “The Estate Tax and Inter vivos Transfers over Time,” 2013. Forthcoming in The American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May.
– “The Social Safety Net for the Elderly,” 2013. Forthcoming in The Legacy of the War on Poverty: Implications for the Future of Anti-Poverty Policies, Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, eds. New York: Russell Sage.
– “Out-of-Pocket Spending in the Last Five Years of Life” (with Amy Kelley et al.), 2013. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 28 (2) : 304-309. (Published on line, September 2012.)