Marika is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a coeditor at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Cabral’s research covers a range of topics in health economics and public finance. Much of her research focuses on understanding the role of market failures, the impacts of incentive design, and the consequences of government intervention in health-related insurance markets. She is the 2024 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal, and in 2019, she was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award. She was awarded the National Tax Association Dissertation Award in 2011 and the International Health Economics Association Arrow Award for “the best paper in health economics published in 2017”.