Adam Leive

Adam Leive

Assistant Professor, Public Policy

Adam Leive is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a health economist who uses large administrative datasets to study policy-relevant questions about health insurance and safety net programs. His research seeks to understand consumer behavior in complicated life-cycle decisions that impact economic security, such as health insurance and retirement saving. He also studies the effects of employment incentives in safety net programs on labor market outcomes and program participation. 

Avi Feller

Avi Feller

Associate Professor, Public Policy and Statistics

Avi Feller is an assistant professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, where he works at the intersection of public policy, data science, and statistics. His methodological research centers on learning more from social policy evaluations, especially randomized experiments. His applied research focuses on working with governments on using data to design, implement, and evaluate policies.

Ben Handel

Ben Handel

Associate Professor, Economics

Ben Handel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Economics and participated in the 2010 Review of Economics Studies European Tour. His research focuses on the microeconomics of consumer choice and market structure in the health care sector, with an emphasis on health insurance markets. His most recent research has emphasized the important role that consumer choice frictions, such as inertia and limited information, can have when assessing the welfare outcomes of different regulatory policies in health insurance markets. In addition, his work studies incentive design and adoption of information technology by medical providers. Dr. Handel has partnered with a range of large firms and policy organizations in the health care sector to study questions in these areas. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 2010, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2011. He received an A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 2004.

Jonathan Kolstad

Jonathan Kolstad

Professor, Henry J. Kaiser Chair, Economic Analysis & Policy

Jonathan Kolstad is an Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of health economics, industrial organization and public economics. His work has studied, amongst other things, the impact of quality information on demand as well as intrinsic surgeon incentives, the impact of the Massachusetts health insurance expansion on a variety of outcomes and consumer decision making in insurance markets. Kolstad was awarded the Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper in health economics in 2014. Professor Kolstad is also a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Picwell.

Nano Barahona

Nano Barahona

Assistant Professor, Economics

Nano Barahona is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests lie in the fields of industrial organization and public economics. His work focuses on studying and quantifying the effects of government policies on individuals' outcomes and welfare, with an emphasis on health, educational, and environmental policies. He is also working on topics of affirmative action in college admissions in Brazil and Chile.

Rebecca Staiger

Rebecca Staiger

Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Becky Staiger is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health. She is a health policy researcher whose work combines approaches from health economics and health services research to explore the behaviors of marginalized patient populations and the providers that treat them. In much of her research, she uses large Medicaid administrative claims databases to better understand how the relationships between patients and their providers affect Medicaid enrollees’ healthcare utilization, as well as how broader policy and clinical environments affect patient access to care. She also explores the impact of external influences (such as peers, policies, and practice environment) on provider behavior and provider participation in Medicaid.

William Dow

William Dow

Professor, Health Policy and Management; Department of Demography

William H. Dow is a health economics professor with appointments in the School of Public Health’s Division of Health Policy and Management and in the Department of Demography. His research analyzes economic aspects of health behaviors as well as health and demographic outcomes. Dow directs UC Berkeley’s NIA-funded Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, and is founding Associate Director of the NICHD-funded Berkeley Population Center. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously served as Interim Dean of the School of Public Health, and as Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Honors include the Kenneth J. Arrow Award given by the International Health Economics Association

Ziad Obermeyer

Ziad Obermeyer

Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management

Ziad Obermeyer is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Obermayer is a physician and researcher who works at the intersection of machine learning and health. His research seeks to understand and improve decision making in public policy and clinical medicine, and drive innovations in health research. His work has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The BMJ, and Health Affairs. He is the recipient of an Early Independence Award from the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.