Nicole Maestas
Associate Economist
RAND

Nicole Maestas (Ph.D., Economics, UC Berkeley) is an Economist at RAND. Her research interests include applied microeconomics, the economics of aging, and health economics. In past and current work, she has studied the retirement behavior of married couples, both in the U.S. and U.K., reverse retirement decisions, job search by older workers, self-employment, psychosocial determinants of retirement, and work disincentives in the DI program.  She has also studied the effect of medical expenditure risk on the portfolio choices of older Americans, pricing in the Medigap insurance market, and the effect of the Medicare program on health care access and utilization, treatment intensity and mortality.