Katherine Carman is a Senior Financial Economist at the SEC. Her research focuses on behavioral economics, health economics, and public economics. Carman is particularly interested in how individuals’ beliefs, perceptions, and decisionmaking processes affect their choices. Currently she is studying health insurance decisions and retirement decisions. She is also interested in the effects of peer behavior and characteristics on individual choices.
Previously, Carman was an economist at the RAND Corporation, Director of RAND’s Behavioral Finance Forum, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School; an assistant professor at Tilburg University and affiliated with CentER and Netspar. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.