JEREMY BAROFSKY (updated May 2015) ______

Contact Information: Brookings Institution [email protected] Okun-Model Fellow Office: 213-821-6486 1775 Ave, Suite 817 Mobile: 617-780-9634 Washington DC, 20005 www.jeremybarofsky.com

Current: Brookings Institution Okun-Model Fellow, 2014 - Present

Previous: University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics Postdoctoral Research Scholar, 2012 – 2014

Education: Department of Global Health and Population, School of Public Health Doctor of Science (Economics Concentration) 2007 – 2012 Thesis: Evaluating the Impact of Health Insurance in Developing Nations using Mexico’s Seguro Popular. Thesis advisors: David Canning, David Cutler, Amitabh Chandra, David Laibson

Boston University M.A., Economics, Department of Economics, 2004 – 2005 B.A., Economics and Public Policy, Magna Cum Laude, 1999 –2003

Research Interests: Health Economics, Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics.

Publications and Submissions:

Universal Health Coverage for the Poor: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mexico's Seguro Popular. Submitted.

Malaria Eradication and Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Uganda (with Claire Chase and Tobenna Anekwe). Revise and Resubmit Journal of Health Economics

Substitutes in Medical Care? The impact of Part D on Spending and Utilization (with Geoffrey Joyce, Julie Zissimopoulos, Patty St. Claire, Yuhui Zheng). Submitted

The Effect of PEPFAR on Employment in sub-Saharan Africa (with Neeraj Sood, Zach Wagner). Forthcoming Health Affairs 2015.

Assessing the effect of the 2001-2006 Mexican health reform: an interim report card, Gakidou, E., et al. Lancet, 2006; Vol. 368, Issue 9550, pp. 1920-1935.

Evidence is good for your health system: policy reform to remedy catastrophic an impoverishing health spending in Mexico, Knaul, F, et al. Lancet, 2006; Vol. 368, Issue 9549, 1828-1841.

Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method. Murray, CJL., et al. PLoS Medicine, November 2007, Vol. 4, Issue 11.

Working Papers:

An Impact Evaluation of Medication Availability and Use in Mexico (with Diane Kuhn and Gary King).

HIV Treatment and Economic Outcomes in Malawi (with Neeraj Sood, Zach Wagner).

Seriously, I'll do it tomorrow: Procrastination in Health Insurance Enrollment using Mexico's Seguro Popular.

Work in Progress:

Financial Consequences of States Not Expanding Medicaid (with Silvia Barcellos)

Behavioral Determinants of Medicaid Enrollment after the ACA Expansion (with Silvia Barcellos)

Understanding the effect of HIV treatment on health and economic outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from clinic data in Malawi (with Victoria Baranov)

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships:

2014 University of Southern California Population Research Center Grant ($10,000) 2010-2012 Lab for Economics Applications and Policy Research Grant ($12,000) 2010-2011 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University ($5,000) 2010-2011 Institute for Quantitative Social Science Research Grant ($5,000) 2010-2011 Harvard Glickenhaus Fellowship ($1,500) 2007-2012 Harvard University School of Public Health Doctoral Fellowship (tuition and stipend) 2008 IPUMS-International Research Award, Best Graduate Student Paper

Invited Presentations:

2015 USC-Brookings Conference on Health and Wellbeing, Brookings Institution Economics Studies Seminar, Pacific Conference for Development Economics UCSD, Academy Health Conference (planned), International Health Economics Associations (planned). 2014 Population Association of America Conference, USDA Economic Research Service, Academy Health Conference, American Society of Health Economists Conference. 2013 Harvard University Healthcare Policy Department; University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics; International Health Economics Association, Eighth Congress, Sydney Australia; RAND Corporation DELI Seminar. 2012 Harvard University Labor Economics Seminar. 2011 Harvard University Development Economics Seminar; International Health Economics Association, Seventh Congress, Toronto, .

Teaching Experience:

Fall 2011 Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Economics Department, Teaching Fellow, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory. Spring 2010 Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Economics Department, Teaching Fellow, and 2011 The Economics of Discontinuous Change. Fall 2009 Harvard University, Cambridge MA, Teaching Fellow, The Business and Politics of Health.

Research Experience and Other Employment:

2010 – 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of , Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision- making, Research Assistant for Julian Jamison. 2010 – 2011 Program in Health Care Financing, Research Assistant for Professor William Hsiao. 2005-2007 Fellow, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Research Assistant for Professor Christopher Murray. 2007 / 2010 Field Experience in Mexico (2010) and Tanzania (2007).

Languages: English: native, Spanish: fluent, Swahili: basic greetings

Professional Activities:  Referee for Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Health Affairs, JAMA Pediatrics  External reviewer for the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

References: Dana Goldman, PhD David Cutler, PhD Norman Topping Chair, Medicine and Public Policy Professor of Applied Economics Director, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Harvard University, Department of Economics Economics, University of Southern California, Littauer, 1875 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 University Gateway 100C, Los Angeles, CA 90089 617-496-5216, [email protected] 213-821-7948, [email protected]

David Canning, PhD Amitabh Chandra, PhD Professor of Economics and International Health Professor of Public Policy Harvard University, School of Public Health Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 Mailbox 26, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-432-6336, [email protected] 617-496-7356, [email protected]