Katherine Grace Carman
Katherine Carman a Senior Financial Economist at the SEC. Her research focuses on Behavioral Economics, Financial Decision Making, and Public Economics. She is particularly interested in how individuals' beliefs, perceptions, and decision making processes affect their choices. Currently she is studying financial decisions and financial well-being, with a particular focus on the impacts of COVID-19 and other disasters. She has also worked extensively in the areas of health insurance and retirement decisions as well as the the effects of peer behavior and characteristics on individual choices.
Previously, she worked at the RAND Corporation where she was a Senior Economist, a Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Director of RAND's Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making, and the director of the Behavioral Finance Forum. Before that she was a professor at Tilburg University where she was affiliated with CentER and Netspar. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. She obtained a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
Contact: kcarmanphd@gmail.com