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Pinar Karaca-MandicNew Orleans Office Economist EducationPh.D. in economics, Univerity of California, Berkeley |
Biography
Pinar Karaca-Mandic joined RAND in September 2004 with a background in empirical industrial organization. Her research focuses on health and law. She has extensively studied research topics related to auto insurance and safety issues. Her recently completed projects include the impact of small group health insurance regulations on small business growth as well as the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on small business exit from the public securities markets. One of her current projects examines the adoption of health savings accounts by small business employers. In another project, she studies the impact of Graduated Driver Licensing Laws on teenage driving behavior.
Research Focus
Health care reform; pharmacy benefit design; pharmaceutical innovation; health plan choice models; Industrial organization; applied econometrics; microeconomics
RAND Research Areas
Civil Justice; Health and Health Care; Workforce and Workplace
Recent Projects
- Principal Investigator, Analysis of Graduated Driver Licensing: Lower Risk Exposure or Better Driving (with Greg Ridgeway) sponsored by National Institute of Child Health Development, 2006-2008
- Principal Investigator, The Value of Pharmaceutical Innovations for the Elderly: The Case of Antidepressants, Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation sponsored by National Institute of Aging, 2006-2007
- Principal Investigator, Who exited the public securities markets: A Policy Perspective on Sarbanes-Oxley, RAND Kauffman Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation sponsored by Kauffman Foundation
- Co-Principal Investigator, Peer Group Effects in Employment (with Nicole Maestas) sponsored by RAND Population Research Center, 2006-2007
- Co-Principal Investigator, Consumer Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: A Panacea for Small Business? (with Kanika Kapur and Susan Gates), RAND Kauffman Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation sponsored by Kauffman Foundation
Selected Publications
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates and Brent Fulton, Do Small Group Health Insurance Regulations Influence Small Business Size?, RAND, 2006
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Ehud Kamar and Eric Talley, Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis, RAND, 2006
Aaron S. Edlin and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, "The Accident Externality from Driving", Journal of Political Economy, 114(51), 2006
Dana Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, "Varying Pharmacy Benefits With Clinical Status: The Case of Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy", American Journal of Managed Care, 12, 2006
Kenneth Train and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, "Standard Error Correction in Two-Stage Estimation with Nested Samples", Econometrics Journal, 6(2), 2003
Dana Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Neeraj Sood, "Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans", Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 91
Biography
Pinar Karaca-Mandic joined RAND in September 2004 with a background in empirical industrial organization. Her research focuses on health and law. She has extensively studied research topics related to auto insurance and safety issues. Her recently completed projects include the impact of small group health insurance regulations on small business growth as well as the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on small business exit from the public securities markets. One of her current projects examines the adoption of health savings accounts by small business employers. In another project, she studies the impact of Graduated Driver Licensing Laws on teenage driving behavior.
RAND Research Areas
Civil Justice; Health and Health Care; Workforce and Workplace
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