Becky Staiger, PhD
Biography
Becky Staiger, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how systems, policies, and incentives influence healthcare provider behavior and the delivery of care, particularly for marginalized populations enrolled in Medicaid. Her work spans topics including Medicaid, the reproductive healthcare workforce, and opioid prescribing and utilization.
Staiger’s current projects examine how providers respond to economic and policy incentives, with a particular focus on how physician group affiliations shape the care patients receive. She also studies barriers to provider participation in caring for low-resourced, high-need patient populations.
She teaches courses on U.S. health policy and quantitative methods.
Research Interests
- Health economics and policy evaluation
- Provider behavior and healthcare delivery
- Medicaid and managed care
- Physician group consolidation and corporatization of healthcare
- Quantitative methods for policy research
Education
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PhD – Health Policy & Management, Concentration: Economics
Yale University, 2019 - BA – Williams College, 2009