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Kerry Anne McGeary Ph.D., assistant professor of economics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, was recently named a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. McGeary’s fellowship is with the NBER’s Program in Health Economics, and she is one of only five individuals named to that program this year.

Dr. McGeary’s research is primarily in the area of health economics.  Currently, her main focus is determining the effectiveness of federal and state mandated programs to combat rising health care expenditures.  One of her most recent research papers is “The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Funding on BMI: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System,” which she presented at the University of Iceland in April 2009 while she was a visiting scholar. In addition, this paper will be presented at the International Health Economics Association Meetings in Bejing, China, this summer.

The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization. Sixteen of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in economics and six of the past chairmen of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers have been researchers at the NBER. The more than 1,000 professors of economics and business now teaching at universities around the country who are NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. These Bureau associates concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Lisa Litzinger, Assistant Director of Communications, LeBow College of Business at 215.895.2897 or lml64@drexel.edu.