Health Economics Seminar - The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid

Jacob Wallace, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. Professor Wallace is a health economist who conducts rigorous empirical research to inform US health care policy. In his academic research, he has analyzed how managed care tools shape healthcare utilization and outcomes for vulnerable populations, studied the limitations of risk adjustment and highlighted the importance of randomization, and examined how public insurance programs shape health disparities. Wallace has published his research in leading clinical, health policy, and economics journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Wallace received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and his PhD from Harvard University, where his research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He also worked full-time as a Medicaid policymaker for the New York State Department of Health for three years, worked as a data scientist and product manager in Silicon Valley, and co-founded Young Invincibles, a nonprofit organization dedicated to lifting the voices of young adults in the political process.

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