Pinar
Karaca-Mandic is an assistant professor at
the Division of Health Policy and
Management, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota, and an adjunct
economist at RAND Corporation. Her research
covers topics in public health, health
economics and law & economics. She is
particularly interested in health insurance
benefit design, health care regulations and
markets.
Teaches
PubH 3801: Health Economics and
Policy
Selected Publications
“Going-Private
Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for
2002: A Cross-Country Analysis” (with
Ehud Kamar and Eric Talley), accepted for
publication, Journal of Law, Economics and
Organization
“Consumer-Directed
Health Plans And Health Savings Accounts:
Have They Worked for Small Businesses?” (with Susan Gates
and Kanika Kapur), Forum for Health
Economics & Policy, Vol. 11: Iss. 2,
2008
“Sarbanes-Oxley and
Small Firms: What is the Evidence?” (with
Ehud Kamar and Eric Talley), in In the Name of
Entrepreneurship?: The Logic and Effects of
Special Regulatory Treatment for Small
Business, Susan M. Gates and Kristin
Leuschner, Eds. DRR-4152-ICJ, 2008
“State Health Insurance
Mandates, Consumer Directed Health Plans and
Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea
for Small Businesses?” (with Kanika Kapur
and Susan Gates), in In the Name of
Entrepreneurship?: The Logic and Effects of
Special Regulatory Treatment for Small
Business, Susan M. Gates and Kristin
Leuschner, Eds. DRR-4152-ICJ, 2008
“Pharmacy Benefit Caps and
the Chronically Ill” (with Geoffrey Joyce,
Dana Goldman and Yuhui Zheng), Health
Affairs, Vol 26. No. 5., 2007
“Adverse Selection in
Retiree Prescription Drug Plans” (with Dana
Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce and Neeraj Sood),
Forum for Health Economics & Policy,
Forum: Frontiers in Health Policy Research,
Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2006
“The Accident Externality
from Driving” (with Aaron S. Edlin),
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114,
No.51, 2006
“Varying Pharmacy Benefits
With Clinical Status: The Case of
Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy” (with Dana
Goldman and Geoffrey Joyce), American
Journal of Managed Care, Vol.12, No.1
January 2006
“Standard Error Correction
in Two-Stage Estimation with Nested Samples”
(with Kenneth Train) Econometrics
Journal Vol. 6, No. 2, 2003
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor,
Division of Health Policy and Management,
School of Public Health, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 09/2007-present
Graduate Faculty,
Department of Applied Economics, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
12/2007-present
Faculty Member, Minnesota
Population Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, 03/2008-present
Adjunct Economist, RAND
Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. 10/2007-present
Associate Economist, RAND
Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. 09/2004-09/2007
Visiting Associate in
Economics, Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA. 03/2006-08/2006
Research Assistant,
Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley,
01/1999-12/2003;
Assisted Professors Joe Farrell, Aaron Edlin,
Aviv Nevo on various projects
Graduate Student
Instructor, Department of Economics, U.C.
Berkeley; Undergraduate Marketing (Haas
Business School), Spring 2004; Graduate Game
Theory, Fall 2003, Spring 2002, Spring 2001;
Undergrad. Industrial Organization, Fall
2000
Honors
Academic Progress Award,
Graduate Division, UC Berkeley, Spring 2003.
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate
Division, UC Berkeley, Fall 2002.
Continuing Student Fellowship, Department of
Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001.
Summer Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC
Berkeley, 2001.
Olin Foundation Research Assistantship,
2000-2001 and 2001-2002.
Summer Workshop Award, Social Science
Research Council, Summer 1999.
First Year Fellowship, Department of
Economics, UC Berkeley, 1998-1999.
High Honors, Swarthmore College Honors
Program, 1998.
Adams Prize for the Best Empirical Economics
Paper, Swarthmore College, 1998.
Selected Member, Society of Industrial and
Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 1997.
Selected Member, Sigma Xi Honorary
Scientific Society, 1996-1998.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow,
California Institute of Technology, 1996.
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