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Paul Winfree is an economic Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at The Heritage Foundation. 

Winfree's main research concerns economic mobility and its recent trends in America. Part of this research is included in a series of papers published by Pew Charitable Trusts in conjunction with related work by scholars at other Washington-based think tanks. (See www.economicmobility.org)

Winfree also specializes in health economics and applied econometrics. One example of his work involved estimating the degree to which publicly provided insurance causes a decrease in private health insurance. These "crowding-out" estimates played a crucial role in recent debates over expansions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP.

Before joining Heritage in 2006, Winfree earned his master's degree from the London School of Economics, where he studied economics and economic history. He has a bachelor's degree from George Mason University where he graduated in 2005 with degrees in both economics and mathematics.