Steven Garber
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Education
Overview
Biography
Steven Garber is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Garber's research areas include civil justice, health, and military recruiting, with much of that work focusing on economic and policy issues affecting U.S. industries. Recent and ongoing work in civil justice examines product liability, medical malpractice, litigation finance, and mass litigation. Earlier civil justice work analyzed economic effects of product liability and punitive damages in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and automobile industries, as well as environmental liability and regulation, including the Superfund program and California's policies for reducing air pollution. Much of Garber's research in health pertains to medical innovation involving, in particular, medical devices and health care delivery. His research on military recruiting has included analyses of effects of advertising; how incentives affect their recruiter productivity; and cost-effectiveness of alternative recruiting tools such as recruiters, marketing, bonuses, and educational benefits.
Before joining RAND, Garber spent ten years in residence on the faculty of the graduate school of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University (now called Heinz College). He has also held faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Toronto, and he has spent a year as a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
Garber received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Alternative litigation finance
- Innovation in health care delivery
- Effects of medical malpractice reforms on access to justice
- Pharmaceutical product liability
- Strategies for increasing productivity of Army recruiters
Selected Publications
Steven Garber, Alternative Litigation Financing in the United States: Issues, Knowns, and Unknowns, RAND (OP-306-LFCMP), 2010
Steven Garber, Michael D. Greenberg, Hilary Rhodes, Xiaohui Zhuo, and John L. Adams, "Do Non-economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access to Justice for Victims of Medical Negligence?" Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(4):637-686, 2009
John L. Adams and Steven Garber, "Reducing Medical Malpractice by Targeting Physicians Making Medical Malpractice Payments," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4(1), 2007
James N. Dertouzos and Steven Garber, "Effectiveness of Advertising in Different Media: The Case of U.S. Army Recruiting," Journal of Advertising, 2006
James N. Dertouzos and Steven Garber, Human Resource Management and Army Recruiting: Analyses of Policy Options, RAND (MG-562-A), 2006
Jesse D. Malkin, Emmett Keeler, Michael S. Broder, and Steven Garber, "Postpartum Length of Stay and Newborn Health: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis," Pediatrics, 111(4), 2003
S. Garber, "Punitive Damages and Deterrence of Efficiency-Promoting Analysis: A Problem Without a Solution?" Stanford Law Review, 52, 2000
S. Garber, "Product Liability, Punitive Damages, Business Decisions and Economic Outcomes," Wisconsin Law Review, (1), 1998
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Forbes; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; USA Today
Economics
Recent Projects
- Economics of nontraditonal litigation funding
- Economics of plaintiffs' attorney practice
- Health care innovation and social value
- Dynamics of mass litigation episodes
- Economics of pharmaceutical product liability and related litigation
Selected Publications
Steven Garber, Michael D. Greenberg, Hilary Rhodes, Xiaohui Zhuo, and John L. Adams, "Do Non-economic Damages Caps and Attorney Fee Limits Reduce Access to Justice for Victims of Medical Negligence?" Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(4):637-686, 2009
James N. Dertouzos and Steven Garber, Performance Evaluation and Army Recruiting, RAND Corporation (MG-562-A), 2008
John L. Adams and Steven Garber, "Reducing Medical Malpractice by Targeting Physicians Making Medical Malpractice Payments," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4(1):187-224, 2007
James N. Dertouzos and Steven Garber, "Effectiveness of Advertising in Different Media: The Case of U.S. Army Recruiting," Journal of Advertising, 35(Summer):111-122, 2006
Steven Garber, M. Susan Ridgely, Melissa Bradley, and Kenley W. Chin, "Payment Under Public and Private Insurance and Access to Cochlear Implants," Achives of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, 128:1145-1152, 2002
Steven Garber, "Punitive Damages and Deterrence of Efficiency-Promoting Analysis: A Problem Without a Solution?" Stanford Law Review, 52:1809-1820, 2000
Steven Garber and John L. Adams, "Product and Stock Market Responses to Automotive Product Liability Verdicts," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics 1998, :1-44, 1999
Steven Garber and James Hammitt, "Risk Premiums for Environmental Liability: Does Superfund Increase the Cost of Capital?" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 36:267-294, 1998
Civil Justice
Biography
Steven Garber is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Much of Garber's research—for the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) and otherwise—focuses on economic and policy issues affecting U.S. industries. Recent and ongoing ICJ work related to medical malpractice examines what can and cannot be inferred from a physician's malpractice payments history and how cross-state differences in medical malpractice laws affect the ability of people with meritorious claims to retain high-quality counsel. Other work in progress focuses on developing general lessons about mass litigation in the United States and understanding economic effects of recent developments affecting the U.S. product liability environment for prescription pharmaceuticals. Earlier ICJ work analyzed economic effects of product liability and punitive damages in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and automobile industries, as well as environmental liability and regulation, including the Superfund program and California's policies for reducing air pollution.
Before joining RAND, Garber spent ten years in residence on the faculty of the graduate school of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University (now called Heinz College). He has also held faculty positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Toronto, and he has spent a year as a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
Garber received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Recent Projects
- Mass Litigation
- Tort Policy and Access to Justice
- Pharmaceutical Product Liability
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