Benjamin R. Handel

Benjamin Handel Ph.D.
Cohort 17 — Berkeley/UCSF
Scholar, RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
University of California, Berkeley/UCSF, Berkeley CA
Benjamin 

holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economic foundations of consumer choice and market performance in health insurance. His dissertation work uses a large micro-level dataset to study consumer choice adequacy and how that interacts with adverse selection in health insurance markets. More generally, he is interested in the design and performance of regulated health markets, such as health insurance exchanges, and firm competition and regulatory policy in environments in which it is difficult for consumers to make decisions. After the Program, he will take a position as an assistant professor in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Economics.

Discipline: Economics