Corina Mommaerts

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Corina Mommaerts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an applied microeconomist, her research focuses on insurance against risks over the life course, particularly related to health and aging. Insurance against these risks takes many forms, including highly specific formal contracts, informal agreements between neighbors, and self-reliance on savings. Her work explores fundamental questions about how households insure themselves, the impact of different forms of insurance on household outcomes, and the optimal design of formal insurance. One of the main contexts for her research is the economics of long-term care, where she studies the role of informal care in meeting care needs, the effect of managed care in Medicaid long-term care programs, and the optimal design of long-term care insurance. She also has work on the design of health insurance deductibles, subsidy design in workers’ compensation and firm hiring, and earnings volatility over the life cycle.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Economic Demography and Health and Biodemography

Selected Publications:

Mommaerts C. Long-term care insurance and the family. Journal of Political Economy. 2025; 133(1):000-000. issn: 0022-3808

Mommaerts C, Truskinovsky Y. The cyclicality of informal care. J Health Econ. 2020 May;71:102306. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7231658.

Mommaerts C. Are coresidence and nursing homes substitutes? Evidence from Medicaid spend-down provisions. J Health Econ. 2018 May;59:125-138. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5966342.

Chandra A, Coile C, Mommaerts C. What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?. J Econ Lit. 2023 Jun;61(2):428-470. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11801801.

Hong L, Mommaerts C. Time Aggregation in Health Insurance Deductibles. Am Econ J Econ Policy. 2024 May;16(2):270-299. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12734798.

Aizawa N, Mommaerts C, Rennane S. Firm Accommodation After Disability: Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance. Econometrica; 2026 March.