Researcher Spotlight
Associate Economist
Abby Alpert is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation. Her research areas include health economics, public finance, and labor economics. Her recent research studies anticipatory responses to Medicare Part D and the effects of Medicaid reimbursement rules on generic drug price…
Associate Economist
Marco Angrisani is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research interests span across labor economics, applied microeconomics, public finance, and financial economics. His current projects focus on household finance and saving…
Leader, Global Health Initiative, RAND Health
Ross Anthony leads RAND Health's Global Health Initiative and directs the Palestine Initiative at the RAND Corporation. He has led projects to develop a national health care strategy for Qatar and to analyze how to build a successful, independent Palestinian state. Anthony has more than 20 years…
Associate Economist
Silvia Helena Barcellos is an Associate Economist at RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics topics in labor and development economics. Her labor economics research includes works on the economic causes and consequences of immigration to the United…
Associate Economist
Sebastian Bauhoff is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses competitive health care markets, payment systems and regulation in the US and internationally. His recent work includes an audit study of risk selection in the German Social Health Insurance and a…
Economist
Nicholas Burger is an economist conducting research in the areas of environmental economics and international development. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His environmental economics research focuses on domestic and international energy, environmental, and climate…
Associate Economist
Jeremy Burke is an associate economist at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His main field of research is information economics, with a particular focus on how people gather and use information to make economic, financial, and housing decisions. In recent work he has…
Associate Economist
Leandro Carvalho in an associate economist whose research interests include topics in development, labor, and health economics. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Carvalho has studied the time preferences of poor families; gender discrimination in India; the importance of…
Senior Policy Researcher
Cheryl Damberg is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her areas of expertise include pay for performance (P4P), quality measurement, patient safety, consumer-directed health plans, and assessing the impact of health care reform…
Senior Economist
Ashlesha Datar is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on the role of school, neighborhood, and other contextual factors in determining children's health and educational outcomes, with a special focus on childhood obesity. In her current research, Datar is studying…
Associate Economist
Fabian Duarte is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His background is in industrial organization, health economics, social security, and education. Duarte is currently working on several papers and projects, including a project for…
Economist
Christine Eibner is an economist at the RAND Corporation, specializing in applied econometrics and cost analyses. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Eibner's current research focuses on socioeconomic disparities in health; employer-sponsored insurance; military medical…
Senior Economist
John Engberg is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in applied statistical methods and microeconomics. Engberg's research spans the areas of education, health, labor markets, economic development, and crime. One theme that connects much of this work is the analysis of data…
Economist
Titus Galama is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Galama's recent work has included studies of health and retirement behavior, labor markets, technology-based economic development, education, and the science and engineering workforce. He has…
Senior Economist
Peter Glick is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in applied microeconomic and statistical analysis with a focus on education, health, and poverty in developing countries. His research has investigated, among other…
Director, Economics, Finance, and Organization Program, RAND Health
Carole Roan Gresenz is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and director of the Health Economics, Finance, and Organization program within RAND Health. Her recent work includes analyses of health insurance coverage outcomes among children following expansions of the Children's Health…
Senior Economist
Katherine Harris is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her areas of study include health economics and health services research. She has led numerous studies on consumer demand for health care. Her most recent work focuses on the…
Acting Director, RAND Law, Business, and Regulation
Paul Heaton is the acting director of RAND Law, Business, and Regulation and also the RAND Institute for Civil Justice. He is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His areas of expertise include law and economics, applied microeconomics, and criminal justice policy. Recent research…
Senior Economist
Susan D. Hosek is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her military health research has focused on issues such as benefit design and the demand for health care, medical staff mix, and the organization and management of the military health…
Associate Economist
Peter Huckfeldt is an associate economist at RAND and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research interests include health, public, and labor economics. His recent work examines Medicaid and SCHIP program expansions; pharmaceutical marketing and utilization over the patent…
Policy Researcher
Peter Hussey is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. He has conducted research on topics such as episode-based payment and performance measurement approaches, health care efficiency measurement, and quality improvement. He has participated in evaluations of delivery system reform options…
Deputy Director, Health Economics, Finance and Organization
Mireille Jacobson's work focuses broadly on issues of health and criminal justice polcy. She is currently a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining RAND in 2009, she was on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) first as an assistant…
Economist
Srikanth Kadiyala is an economist with research interests in the areas of health policy and health economics. His particular interests are in cancer screening policy and health insurance effects on health outcomes. Kadiyala's current research is focused on how health insurance affects cancer…
Director, Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID)
Krishna Kumar is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. He directs Research and Policy in International Development (RAPID) within RAND Labor and Population and leads the Rosenfeld Program on Asian Development at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research and teaching interests are…
Senior Economist
Jinkook Lee is a senior economist at RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, she was a professor at Ohio State University and has held visiting positions at Federal Reserve Board and University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research expertise…
Associate Economist
Sebastian Linnemayr is an associate economist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His current research focuses on the impact of HIV on fertility as well as on the economic impact of HIV and other health shocks in developing countries. Linnemayr joined RAND…
Economist
Francisco Martorell joined RAND as an associate economist in 2005 and is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Martorell specializes in labor economics and the economics of education. His current projects include a study on the signaling value of high school diplomas, the costs of…
Economist
Amalia Miller is an economist at the RAND Corporation. Her research areas include health and labor economics, public finance, and industrial organization. In health, she has studied the determinants of healthcare information technology diffusion and its impacts on health outcomes and spending.…
Economist
Kathleen Mullen is an economist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the RAND Center for Disability Research. Her work addresses the economics of retirement, health, and disability, with an emphasis on the incentive effects of social insurance programs such as Social Security and…
Economist
Nancy Nicosia, Ph.D., is an economist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Nicosia's recent research has focused on the intersection between substance use, health, and crime. Her research includes an examination of the extent to which methamphetamine use can be linked to adverse health and social…
Associate Policy Researcher
Edward Okeke is an associate policy researcher at RAND Corporation. Okeke's primary research interest is in international health economics. He has conducted research on health workforce issues (health worker migration) and on the demand for preventive care in low-income countries. Prior to…
Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She serves as codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her research has largely focused on whether state and local public policies are cost-effective and effective…
Associate Economist
David Powell is an associate economist. His areas of expertise include public finance, health economics, and econometrics. Recent research has examined the impact of income taxes on wages, occupational choice, and labor income. He has also extended quantile estimation to panel data contexts. …
Associate Director, RAND Center for the Study of Aging
Susann Rohwedder is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, associate director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on the economics of aging in the areas of household consumption and saving behavior, retirement,…
Associate Director, Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace
Seth Seabury is an economist at the RAND Corporation and the associate director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. His research focuses on law and health care policy, with a particular emphasis on efforts to improve the medical malpractice and workers' compensation…
Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies
James P. Smith holds the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation. He is currently principal investigator for the New Immigrant Survey, a cost-effective survey that yields adequate sample size of the foreign-born, has known sampling properties, permits…
Senior Economist
Roland Sturm is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Sturm's research has focused on how urban design and neighborhood characteristics affect lifestyles and health; the effects of obesity, physical activity, smoking, and problem drinking…
Economist
Joanne Yoong is an economist at the RAND Corporation, where her research is focused on individual decisionmaking with an emphasis on finance, health, and economic development; she is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her previous research in applied microeconomics was largely…
Economist
Gema Zamarro is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor of Econometrics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining RAND, Zamarro was an assistant professor in the Department of Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a junior research fellow at NETSPAR…
Director, Public Health Systems and Preparedness Initiative, RAND Health
Jeanne S. Ringel is a senior economist at RAND, a faculty member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an adjunct lecturer in the School of Policy Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. She has conducted research on a variety of topics including public health…
Policy Researcher, Assoc
Andrew Mulcahy is an associate policy researcher. He has expertise in the study of U.S. and global pharmaceutical markets and focuses primarily on supply-side issues of R&D organization and management, intellectual property policy and other incentives for R&D, and pricing and …
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Roland Sturm's work analyzing the food environment in California and across the U.S. has been cited in a recent article in the New York Times, which focuses on the effects of "food deserts" in poorer neighborhoods.
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