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Pinar Karaca-Mandic

Economist Adjunct Staff RAND Publications List	Education Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Fields	Policy Areas

Biography Summary

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.

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