Reigne Dadey

Reigne graduated with a Bachelor of Economics, from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2019.  She is interested in disability and ageing, health equity and access to care, and understanding the interactions between individuals’ health and labor decisions.  As a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Research (working for Professor Mark Duggan), she studied (using Census of Governments data) how expanded federal funding for Medicaid shaped local government budgets, and the impact of hospital privatizations on access to care. As a research professional at the University of Chicago (working for Professors Dmitri Koustas and Yana Gallen), she worked on projects using American tax data to understand the relationships between gender/family behavior, health insurance access, and employment.  Reigne was awarded the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship in 2022.