Maya Rossin-Slater

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Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD

  • Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor of Human Biology
  • Associate Professor, Health Policy
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Associate Professor, Economics (by courtesy)
  • PhD Program Director

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

Biography

Maya Rossin-Slater is the Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor of Human Biology and Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University.  She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR), a Faculty Affiliate at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the IZA@LISER Network. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, and her BA in Economics and Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a health economist who studies issues in maternal, child, and family well-being, social safety net programs, and public policies and other factors affecting disadvantaged populations. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Elaine Bennett Research Prize (awarded to recognize outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her PhD). She is also the PI on several grants from the National Institutes of Health, and has published articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves as a co-editor at the Journal of Human Resources.

In The News

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News

SHP Researchers Investigate How to Foster Healthier Digital Lives Among Children

There is little large-scale data on the impact of social media and smartphones on the mental health of children, so SHP’s Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater have set out to tighten that gap with support from the Stanford Impact Labs.
SHP Researchers Investigate How to Foster Healthier Digital Lives Among Children
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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