LDI Research Seminar with Nicole Maestas, PhD
“Disability Insurance and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts”
Nicole Maestas is a senior economist, director of the RAND Center for Disability Research, and research department director of the Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department at the RAND Corporation. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Maestas’s research addresses the economics of retirement, health, and disability—specifically, work after retirement (“unretirement”); how longer work lives could ameliorate the economic effects of population aging; the work disincentive effects of the Social Security Disability Insurance program; and the effect of the Medicare program on disparities in health care utilization, treatment intensity, and mortality. She is director of the RAND Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging and a professor of economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where she teaches microeconomic theory. Maestas received her BA from Wellesley College; her MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley; and her PhD in economics, also from UC Berkeley.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Sponsored by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund