Amanda Starc
Education
Ph.D., business economics, Harvard University
Summary of Experience
Professor Starc focuses her research on industrial organization and health economics. She examines the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Medicare Supplement markets, as well as consumer behavior in insurance exchanges. Professor Starc’s work links models of consumer choice and supply-side incentives and uses a range of econometric techniques to analyze data. She has published numerous papers and articles on topics such as direct-to-consumer advertising, health insurance exchanges, insurer pricing, pricing regulation and competition, and consumer valuation and choice. Professor Starc’s work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including The RAND Journal of Economics and The Review of Economics and Statistics. She is an associate editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics and the Journal of Health Economics; she previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Professor Starc received the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation Health Care Research Award for a paper she co-authored on how product standardization affects choice as it relates to the Massachusetts Health Connector. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
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