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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is Dr. Anita Mukherjee, Associate Professor in Risk and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Professor Mukherjee conducts research

on public policy related to prisons in the opioid crisis, as well as household finance, retirement,

and aging. Professor Mukherjee joined the Wisconsin School of Business after completing her PhD

and applied economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an

MS in management science and engineering, a BS in mathematics, and a BA in economics, all from

Stanford University. Prior to enrolling at Wharton, she spent two years working as a consultant to Oliver

Wyman. Dr. Mukherjee, welcome to the Longview. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Well, we're excited to have you here. Now, you have a diverse portfolio of research interests,

public policy related to prisons and the opioid crisis, as well as household finance, retirement,

and aging. Do you find that there are a lot of connections,

a lot of interrelationships among those two broad sets of topics? And if so, what's an example of

that? Yeah, I think for me, the draw to this set of topics has really been a focus on vulnerable

populations. And you know, you find those both among people growing older, you know, with some uncertainty as to how the last years will look.

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