NBER profile: Jay Bhattacharya.

Jay Bhattacharya is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER'S Programs on Health Care and Health Economics and an assistant professor in the Centers for Health Policy and for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR) at Stanford University's Medical School. Bhattacharya earned his bachelor's and master's degree in economics, his M.D. in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2000, all from Stanford University. He worked for three years as an economist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA, where he also taught health economics as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Bhattacharya's research focuses on how insurance markets and government programs affect the health and well-being of a wide variety of vulnerable populations, including the...