Pamela Herd

Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
3454 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-9451
pherd@lafollette.wisc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
Pamela Herd’s research focuses on how gender race and class shape the distribution of income in old age and more recently how class (socioeconomic status) shapes the distribution of health. Her work on Social Security demonstrates how the benefit structure is problematic for women because of changing demographic trends related to marriage and employment patterns among women. Her work on health demonstrates how multiple dimensions of individual SES (income, education) are associated with health and health-related quality of life over the life course. More recent work is focused on income, specifically, explores the causal direction between income and health, whether income support policies improve health. She is currently working on a project that examines the mechanisms that link higher education attainment to better health outcomes.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Health and Mortality