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.
Articles
Consumer-Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Have They Worked for Small Business?, Forum for Health Economics & Policy: Vol. 11: Iss. 2 (Health Economics) (2008)
Impact of Specialty Drugs on Use of Other Medical Services (with Geoffrey Joyce, Dana Goldman, and Grant Lawless), American Journal of Managed Care (2008)
Pharmacy Benefit Caps And the Chronically Ill (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, and Yuhui Zheng), Health Affairs (2007)
In this paper we examine medication use among retirees with employersponsored drug coverage both with...
The Accident Externality from Driving (with Aaron S. Edlin), Journal of Political Economy (2006)
We estimate auto accident externalities (more specifically insurance externalities) using panel data on state-average insurance...
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 (2006)
We used claims data from a large U.S. employer that introduced changes in its medical...
Unpublished Papers
Behavioral Impact of Graduated Driver Licensing on Teenage Driving Risk and Exposure (with Greg Ridgeway) (2008)
Peer Groups and Employment Outcomes: Evidence Based on Conditional Random Assignment in the U.S. Army (with Seo Yeon Hong and Nicole Maestas) (2008)
Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis (with Ehud Kamar and Eric Talley) (2007)
We investigate whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has driven firms out of the...
Role of Complementarities in Technology Adoption: The Case of DVD Players (2007)
This paper estimates complementarities between DVD player adoption and availability of content on DVD. Model...
Sarbanes-Oxley's Effects on Small Firms: What is the Evidence? (with Ehud Kamar and Eric Talley) (2007)
This article presents an overview of the regulatory regime created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of...