Victoria Marone

Victoria Marone joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Economics. She is an economist who works at the intersection of health economics and industrial organization. Her research focuses on the design of policy in health insurance and healthcare markets, examining how insurance contract structures, provider networks, and regulatory policies influence market efficiency, consumer welfare, and access to care. Her research includes studies on the welfare implications of offering choice over vertically differentiated health insurance plans, regulation of markups in U.S. health insurance, the design of dynamic reassignment mechanisms in the allocation of primary care physicians, and the prevalence and pricing of narrow networks in U.S. individual health insurance markets. Marone's ongoing work is focused on the industrial organization of universal healthcare systems.

She earned her PhD and MA in Economics from Northwestern University. She holds dual BS degrees in Mathematics and Energy Business and Finance from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Yale, Marone was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a researcher at Statistics Norway.