Senior Economist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Kandice Kapinos is a senior economist specializing in access to health care and disparities in the United States and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She was previously director of the Center for Causal Inference at RAND. Kapinos combines applied microeconomics and epidemiologic models with advanced econometrics and causal inference tools to understand how social, environmental, and structural factors influence health behaviors and the extent to which policies and programs can improve outcomes. Kapinos’s work has been independently funded by NIH, HRSA, HHS, SBA, RWJF Foundation, the California Healthcare Foundation, as well as other foundations, private entities, and state agencies.
Kapinos previously held positions at the University of Michigan, the U.S. Census Bureau, Abt Associates, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in labor economics/human resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign from an interdisciplinary program specializing in labor economics and an M.S. in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, a VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center of Excellence and the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.
Ph.D. in labor economics/human resources, University of Illinois; M.S. in epidemiology, Harvard University; M.S. in labor economics/human resources, University of Illinois; B.S. in business administration, University of Texas
