| University of Delaware | 188A Graham Hall | Newark, DE 19716 | <div class="ExternalClassAB399689E2D74C44B7D4380E217499D2"><p>I study consumer finance, with a specific focus on financial services for low-income households and low-income tax and transfer programs. My current work focuses on the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the use of mainstream and alternative financial providers; understanding how policy changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the food stamp program, affect caseloads; and, examining how child savings programs affects investments in children. I am currently a non-resident Research Fellow at the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<br></p><p>My research has been published in the <em>National Tax Journal</em>, the <em>Southern Economic Journal</em>, the <em>Journal of Consumer Affairs</em>, the <em>Social Service Review</em>, and the <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>. My work has been supported by the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.russellsage.org/awarded-project/effects-affordable-care-act-%25C2%25A0-use-%25C2%25A0alternative-financial-services-providers&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE-BTuFRMCC7OjhJG9pF9ndpZhEGw" target="_blank">Russell Sage Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.irp.wisc.edu/initiatives/emergingscholars/grants.htm%23fitzpatrick&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFziNzG6Brq3f1hP9RJ1CjFSWkGKQ" target="_blank">University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty</a>, the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ukcpr.org/research/childhood-hunger/grant-recipients&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUJvcugcUuCpWTiRTQ7HHaKgll1w" target="_blank">University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research</a>, the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://filene.org/&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEelIyUR4h5U9Q9gH0oK3vo3P4w7Q" target="_blank">Filene Research Institute</a>, and the FDIC Center for Financial Research.<br></p><p>Prior to the University of Delaware, I was an Associate Professor of Economics at <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.seattleu.edu/business/departments/economics/&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFPS7pqjPTlQllcOJE3_TGWnkM8Zw" target="_blank">Seattle University</a>, an Economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ers.usda.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE4wEvWnl5_BZ0g5XtN31AD5oeabA" target="_blank">Economic Research Service</a> (ERS) and served as an adjunct professor at the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://gppi.georgetown.edu/&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGvvyHJQbB6czbgVUOwkK_E0SfKzw" target="_blank">Georgetown Public Policy Institute</a>. I have conducted research at the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ihcrp.georgetown.edu/&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFLyVELX4GnejVW0Z0SPq0TbzgoSQ" target="_blank">Health Policy Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.taxpolicycenter.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG7PI_k3C1U9j3CeaVaRRHoQZjUkg" target="_blank">Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center</a>, and the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.brookings.edu&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHCqCTy6FOC4x6h012S5ZYg0vzK8w" target="_blank">Brookings Institution</a>.<br></p></div> | <div class="ExternalClass4D887705DDC4415B870C11AC1C386FC8"><p>Associate Professor of Economics, Seattle University, 2011-2017<br></p><p>Economist, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2009-2011<br></p></div> | | | | <div class="ExternalClassB16DC84ECF5D4DEDB19B2C5B9BCCC1D6"><p>consumer finance, anti-poverty programs, health policy, food policy<br></p></div> | Selected Previous Experience | | | | Research Interests | | kfitzpat@udel.edu | /Documents%20Bios%20CVs/Katie-Fitzpatrick-cv.pdf | Fitzpatrick, Katie | | 302-831-6281 | <img alt="" src="/Images%20Bios/Fitzpatrick_Katie-2018-13.jpg" width="426" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Director, Master of Public Policy | Associate Professor | | | | | | | https://www.sites.google.com/site/kefitzpatrick | <div class="ExternalClass3FCA4864957244318AD4449D4A1EAA9B"><p>Ph.D., Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2009<br></p><p>M.P.P., McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, 2004<br></p><p>B.A., Public Policy, Stanford University, 1999<br></p></div> | <div class="ExternalClass6C0C17769D694A558A714702016DB669"><p>With my co-authors, I won the Musgrave Prize for the best paper published in the <em>National Tax Journal</em> in 2010 and was a Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize finalist in 2015 for the best paper published in the <em>Social Service Review</em>.<em> </em>I was also a finalist for the best paper published in the <em>Journal of Consumer Affairs </em>in 2016.<br></p></div> | | | | | | | | |
