Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

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Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in economics, Duke University; B.S. in political science, Santa Clara University

Overview

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where she has served on several dissertation committees. She previously served as director of RAND's BING Center for Health Economics and co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her research at RAND largely focused on issues related to illegal or imperfect markets (health care markets, insurance markets, illicit drug markets), measurement of the size of these markets, the impact they have on behavior (suppliers and consumers), and the effectiveness of policy interventions at targeting behavior within these markets. More recently her work has shifted to evaluating the impact of recent opioid policies in the US. She has explored the influence of buprenorphine diffusion, OxyContin reformulation, insurance expansion, medical marijuana and naloxone distribution laws on opioid related harm. She has also done work examining the size of the market for illicit opioids. Pacula has been a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1997, serves on the editorial board of several journals, and is a scientific reviewer for the National Institutes of Health's HSOD committee. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Duke University.

Research Focus

Pardee RAND Graduate School Courses

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law, and Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

Commentary

  • Nate Johnson, managing owner of the Queen Anne Cannabis Club in Seattle, Washington

    Legalising Cannabis Is More Than Just a Yes or No Decision

    Any truly honest discussion about how to regulate cannabis markets must start with clear objectives and goals. How these markets are opened can be as important as the decision to legalise cannabis.

    May 2, 2014 The Conversation

  • A group of teenagers drinking outdoors

    U.S. Needs to Improve Community-Based Drug, Alcohol Prevention

    As familiar as Americans are with the problems of youth drug and alcohol abuse, we are not identifying all the potential solutions. While observers criticize overemphasis in U.S. policy on enforcement and scant resources devoted to treatment, the focus on these approaches often ignores a key piece of the puzzle: prevention.

    Jan 31, 2014 The Orange County Register

Publications