NBER profile: Brigitte Madrian.

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Brigitte Madrian has been an NBER Research Associate since 2001 in the Programs on Health Care, Aging, Labor Studies, and Public Economics. She is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Social Science Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Madrian received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT and a BA/MA in economics from Brigham Young University. Before joining the Kennedy School faculty in 2006, Madrian was at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School from 2003-6, the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business from 1995-2003, and in Harvard University's Economics Department from 1993-5.

Her current research focuses on household saving and investment behavior. Her work in this area has influenced the design of...