Dr. Diane Alexander

Biography

Diane Alexander is an Assistant Professor in Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research predominantly focuses on health care, particularly the economics of health care services and the actions of health care providers. She is broadly interested in the interactions between environmental policies and health, as well as health care education. Her work has been featured in various media outlets, including The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Vox, and Scientific American. Diane has studied the roles of new types of providers in health care delivery, such as retail urgent care clinics, and the influence of payment incentives on physician decision-making. A strand of her work focuses on the interaction of environmental factors and health outcomes, specifically addressing the roles of residential segregation in explaining persistent racial health disparities and the effects of pollution on health, notably using the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal as a natural experiment. Prior to joining Wharton, she worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Diane holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

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