Dana Goldman

Dana Goldman is the Director of Health Economics at The RAND Corporation and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology and Health Services at UCLA. He is the recipient of the 2002 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award that recognizes the contribution of new scholars to the field of health services research

Dr. Goldman’s research interests combine applied microeconomics and health economics. He has a special interest in the economics of chronic disease and his work has been published in leading medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals. Dr. Goldman is also leading a multi-institutional effort (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation) to provide national estimates of the cost of government-sponsored cancer trials.

Dr. Goldman received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, and his B.A. from Cornell University.

• Lakdawalla D, Sood N, Goldman D. “HIV Treatment and Risky Sexual Behavior.”
  Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
  
• Goldman D, Smith J. “Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2):234-237, 2005.
  
• Goldman D, Joyce G, et al. "Pharmacy Benefits and The Use Of Drugs By The Chronically-Ill.”
  Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(19):2344-50, 2004.
  
• Bhattacharya J, Goldman D, Sood N. “The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV Related Mortality.” Journal of Health Economics, 22(6): 1105-1122, 2003.
  
• Goldman D, Berry S, et al. “The Incremental Costs of NCI-Sponsored Clinical Trials.”
  Journal of the American Medical Association, 289(22), 2003.
  
• Joyce G, Escarce J, Solomon M, Goldman D. “Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs.” Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(14):1733-1739, 2002.
  
• Goldman D, Smith J. “Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient?”
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(16):10929-10934, 2002.
  
• Goldman D, Bhattacharya J, McCaffrey D, Duan N, Leibowitz A, Joyce G, Morton S. “The Effect of Insurance on Mortality in an HIV+ Population in Care." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96(455):883-894, 2001.
  
• Goldman D, Hosek S, Dixon L, Sloss E. “The Effects of Benefit Design and Managed Care on Health Care Costs.” Journal of Health Economics 14(4):401-418, 1995.
  
• Goldman D. “Managed Care as a Public Cost Containment Mechanism.”
  RAND Journal of Economics, 26(2):277-295, 1995.

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