Health & Healthcare Research

The Opportunity Lab’s Health Initiative conducts and synthesizes economic research with the goals of improving lives and reducing inequality through the more efficient provision of health care services. The core research team, led by Professors Benjamin Handel and Jonathan Kolstad, partners with policy organizations and business to deliver key research insights. The Initiative focuses on research that uses sophisticated economic methods to study large micro-level datasets on consumer and producer and behavior in health care markets. Some of the primary research topics include consumer behavior and market regulation in health insurance markets, physician performance in the context of different payment and technology mechanisms, consumer choices of health care services and providers, and equitable systems for national health care provision.

FACULTY LEADERSHIP

Ben Handel, Assistant Professor of Economics

Ben Handel, Assistant Professor of Economics

Jonathan Kolstad, Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy

Jonathan Kolstad, Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy

Ziad Obermeyer, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management

Ziad Obermeyer, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management