About Anita
Professor Mukherjee holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, a B.S. in Mathematics, and a B.A. in Economics, all from Stanford University. Prior to enrolling at Wharton, she spent two years working as a consultant at Oliver Wyman, in the company’s financial services arm, in New York.
Selected Published Journal Articles
Bavafa, H. & Mukherjee, A. & Welch, T. (2023). Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States Journal of Health Economics
Goodman, L. & Mukherjee, A. & Ramnath, S. (2023). Set it and forget it? Financing retirement in an age of defaults Journal of Financial Economics
Doleac, J. & Mukherjee, A. (2022). The Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Abuse, Mortality, and Crime Journal of Law and Economics
Mukherjee, A. & Cole, S. & Tobacman, J. (2021). Targeting Weather Insurance Markets Journal of Risk and Insurance
Mukherjee, A. (2021). Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Time Served and Recidivism American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Boudot-Reddy, C. & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Improving the adoption of household health products: A sales experiment with chlorine tablets Health Economics
Liu, J. & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Medicaid and long-term care: The effects of penalizing strategic asset transfers Journal of Risk and Insurance
Mukherjee, A. (2020). Intergenerational Altruism and Retirement Transfers: Evidence from the Social Security Notch Journal of Human Resources
Liu, J. & Mukherjee, A. (2020). Medicaid and Long-Term Care: Do Eligibility Rules Impact Asset Holdings? Journal of Risk and Insurance
Bavafa, H. & Liu, J. & Mukherjee, A. (2019). Building Financial and Health Literacy at Older Ages: The Role of Online Information Journal of Consumer Affairs
Bavafa, H. & Mukherjee, A. (2019). The Burgeoning Health Care Needs of Aging Prisoners American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings
Mukherjee, A. (2018). Perspective piece on “Organizing old age pensions for India’s unorganized workers: A case study of a sector-driven approach”, by Narayana Muttur Ranganathan The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Eggleston, K. & Mukherjee, A. (2018). Financing longevity: The economics of pensions, health, and long-term care: Introduction to the special issue The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Mukherjee, A. (2018). Time and Money: Social Security Benefits and Intergenerational Transfers American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings
Mitchell, O. & Mukherjee, A. (2016). Assessing the Demand for Micropensions among India’s Poor The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Mukherjee, A. & Sacks, D. & Yoo, H. The Effects of the Opioid Crisis on Employment: Evidence from Labor Market Flows Journal of Human Resources
Presentations
NBER Summer Institute, Law and Economics (2023) Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Violence from Unmitigated Heat in Prison
NBER Program on Aging (2022) Set it and Forget it? Financing Retirement in an Age of Defaults
Undergraduate Courses
Business Analytics I (2 sections) (BUS 365), Fall 2014.
Business Analytics I (2 sections) (BUS 365), Spring 2015.
Business Analytics I (6 sections) (BUS 365), Fall 2015.
Business Analytics I (BUS 306), Fall 2016.
This course is designed to develop quantitative intuition through practical applications and use of analysis tools. Specifically,emphasis will be on how to manage,summarize,explore,and visualize databases. The essentials of probability will be introdu
Business Analytics I (BUS 306), Fall 2017.
This course is designed to develop quantitative intuition through practical applications and use of analysis tools. Specifically,emphasis will be on how to manage,summarize,explore,and visualize databases. The essentials of probability will be introdu
Business Analytics I (BUS 306), Fall 2018.
Development of quantitative intuition through practical applications and use of analysis tools. Specifically,emphasis will be on how to manage,summarize,explore,and visualize databases. The essentials of probability will be introduced and applied to d
Business Analytics I (BUS 306), Fall 2020.
Development of quantitative intuition through practical applications and use of analysis tools. Specifically, emphasis will be on how to manage, summarize, explore, and visualize databases. The essentials of probability will be introduced and applied to decision problems where there is uncertainty. Emphasis on hypothesis testing and regression analysis and include an introduction to simulation methods. Throughout, attention will be paid to effective communication of data analysis. The use of business cases will connect the course material to both real world settings and recent advances in data analysis, including big data and data mining. Enroll Info: None
Professional Organizations
American Economic Association
American Risk and Insurance Association
Risk Theory Society
Editorial and Reviewing Activities
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance – Since August 2023
Editor
American Economic Review – Since January 2021
Quarterly Journal of Economics – Since January 2021
American Economic Review: Insights – Since January 2021
Review of Economics and Statistics – Since January 2020
Journal of Health Economics – Since January 2020
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy – Since January 2018
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics – Since January 2016
Journal of Risk and Insurance – Since January 2015
Journal of Economics of Ageing – Since January 2015
Popular Media
- RT (2015).
- WORT 89.9FM “A Public Affair” (2015).
- TIME (2015).
- Mother Jones (2015).
- Wisconsin State Journal (2015).
- UW-Madison News (2015).
- AllGov (2015).
- Wisconsin School of Business News (2015).
- The Fiscal Times (2015).
- NPR.
- Freakonomics MD.
- The Economist.
- US News Money.
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