Dr. Maestas is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Maestas is an economist with broad training in the field of health economics and health policy. Her research concerns the economics of health care utilization, health insurance, and health outcomes. She has many years of experience analyzing health care data of different types, including pharmacy claims data and health care utilization data, and in using a wide range of econometric methodologies.

Dr. Maestas has published her research in leading journals in the fields of economics and medicine, including the American Economic Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. In addition, she has been quoted and/or her work has been described in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets. At Harvard, she teaches health economics and health policy to medical students and doctoral students.

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley; M.P.P., Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; B.A., English and Spanish, Wellesley College.

Phone: 617.871.6900
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