Darius Lakdawalla
Associate Professor
Director of Research, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
Email: dlakdawa@usc.eduPh.D. in Economics
University of Chicago
Biographical Sketch
Darius Lakdawalla is an Associate Professor in the University of Southern California (USC) School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD), and Director of Research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
His research has been concerned with the economics of risks to health, and the organization of health care markets. In particular, he has published studies exploring the reasons behind the declining use of nursing homes by the elderly, rising rates of obesity in America, acceleration in the rate of new HIV infections, and the surprising growth in disability among younger Americans.
Dr. Lakdawalla received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Amherst College. His work has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy. He is currently a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Mass., and the former the former Director of Research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at the RAND Corporation.