Maria Polyakova, PhD

Stanford Health Policy
Encina Commons, 615 Crothers Way
Stanford, CA, 94305
Tel: (650) 498-7528
Email: maria.polyakova at stanford.edu

My research studies the equity and efficiency of government interventions in health insurance and healthcare markets. I have examined different types of interventions: public funding of privately-provided health insurance programs, the regulation of premiums and the scope of coverage in health insurance,  the direct public procurement of healthcare, and the provision of information. I use a broad toolbox of empirical  methods and a variety of administrative data and contexts, including Medicare, Medicaid, ACA Marketplaces, and public insurance programs in the EU, with the aim of understanding and quantifying the economic mechanisms that drive the outcomes of interventions.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Faculty Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
• Research Network Affiliate, CESifo

Academic Degrees

• PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2014
• BA, Economics & Mathematics, Yale University, 2008