Maya Rossin-Slater

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Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Health Policy
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Associate Professor, Economics (by courtesy)

Encina Commons,
615 Crothers Way Room 184,
Stanford, CA 94305-6006

Biography

Maya Rossin-Slater is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She received her PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2013, and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2013 to 2017, prior to coming to Stanford. Rossin-Slater’s research includes work in health, public, and labor economics. She focuses on issues in maternal and child well-being, family structure and behavior, and policies targeting disadvantaged populations in the United States and other developed countries.

In The News

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News

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

New research by SIEPR and SHP scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.
Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses
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Commentary

When School Shooting Headlines Fade, the Trauma Doesn't

Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD, writes in this Boston Globe editorial that long after the headlines about the Brown University mass shooting fade, the survivors face decades of trauma that could impact everything from their mental health to their livelihoods.
When School Shooting Headlines Fade, the Trauma Doesn't
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
News

Surgeon General Cites SHP Research in Gun Violence Advisory

In his new advisory on the public health crisis of firearm violence, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cites research by Stanford Health Policy's Maya Rossin-Slater which lays out the devastating long-term impacts of school shootings on the classmates who survive them.
Surgeon General Cites SHP Research in Gun Violence Advisory