Victoria A. Perez

Assistant Professor

Phone:: (812) 856-4647
Email:: vieperez@indiana.edu
Room Number:: 375G

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2015
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2008

Biography

Victoria Perez joined O'Neill as an assistant professor in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in managerial science and applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation focused on the effects of private managed care on Medicaid. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Perez’s research interests include private and governmental financing of healthcare, insurance economics, and regulation. Her research has been published in Health Economics and the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management.

She has also worked as a research assistant and programmer in the health policy division at Mathematica Policy Research.

Highlights

40 for 40 Fellowship recipient, APPAM (2018)
Best Paper Award, 17th Annual National Business & Economics Society Conference, 2016
Wharton Risk Center, Russell Ackoff Award for Doctoral Research, 2010
Research Assistant/Programmer, Mathematica Policy Research, Health Policy Division, Cambridge, Mass., 2008-09

Selected Works

“Elasticity of Medicaid Access with Respect to State Financial Distress,” (with J. Benitez and E. Seiber) American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings (Forthcoming)
“Does Capitated Managed Care Affect Budget Predictability? Evidence from Medicaid programs,” International Journal of Health Economics and Management, pp 1-30 (October 2017)
“Trends in hospital ED closures nationwide and across Medicaid expansion, 2006-2013,” (with A.B. Friedman and D. Owen), The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 34(7):1262-4 (July 2016)
“Covenant 1: Securing the right to health care and well-being 10 years later,” (with K. Simon, A. Gooptu, and S. Freedman, co-eds.) The Covenant with Black America-Ten Years Later, (Tavis Smiley), Hay House, Inc, (2016)
"Affording to Wait: Medicare Initiation and the Use of Health Care," (with G. David, P. Saynisch, and M. D. Neuman), Health Economics, 21.8: 1030-1036. (2012)
"Ownership mix of addiction treatment centres in the USA," (with G. David and M. Lederhandler), International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 3.3 (2011): 267-280.