Meg Blume-Kohout

Meg Blume-Kohout is a Professor of Economics at Gettysburg College, holding a PhD in Policy Analysis from Pardee RAND Graduate School (2009), an MS in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley (2002), and a BA in Economics from Williams College (1996). Her interdisciplinary research examines how government interventions shape STEM workforce dynamics, higher education outcomes, scientific innovation, and entrepreneurial behavior through rigorous econometric analysis.

Education:

• PhD in Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2009
• MS in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• BA in Economics, Williams College, 1996

Research Focus: Integrating methodologies from economics, psychology, sociology, and data science, her work investigates policy impacts on health insurance entrepreneurship (notably ACA effects), STEM education funding efficacy, and R&D funding dynamics in academic and biopharmaceutical contexts. She specializes in causal inference techniques to isolate policy effects from confounding variables.

Publication Trends: Recent work (2022-2024) emphasizes health policy-entrepreneurship linkages and STEM workforce development, building on earlier research into innovation systems and biomedical labor markets. Her publications span economics, policy, and technology transfer journals, demonstrating consistent methodological rigor in analyzing natural experiments and longitudinal datasets.

Teaching and Service: She teaches core economics courses including Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 103), Economics of Public Issues (ECON 105), Health Economics (ECON 270), and Advanced Econometrics (ECON 352). Her research has received support from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Endowment for the Arts, though specific grant details aren't provided in the source text.