Maria Polyakova

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Maria Polyakova, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Health Policy
  • MS in Health Policy Program Director

Encina Commons,
615 Crothers Way Room 182,
Stanford, California 94305-6006

(650) 498-7528 (voice)

Biography

Maria Polyakova, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research investigates the impact of government interventions in healthcare markets. She is especially interested in the broad economic impacts of public health insurance systems and the structure of healthcare labor markets. Her work also investigates the drivers of individual decision-making in health care and the roots of socio-economic differences in health outcomes. Dr. Polyakova received a BA degree in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University, and a PhD in Economics from MIT.

In The News

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Examining US Physician Incomes by International Comparison

SHP's Maria Polyakova and Victoria Udalova compare physician income in the United States, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands. U.S. doctors earn significantly more than their foreign counterparts—but that's largely because Americans across the board earn more.
Examining US Physician Incomes by International Comparison
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Does Health Insurance Create Jobs?

A new study by SHP's Maria Polyakova sheds important new light on a key question in health care economics.
Does Health Insurance Create Jobs?
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Maria Polyakova: Economics Provides a Lens Through Which She Can Better Understand Structural Issues in Society

Maria Polyakova: Economics Provides a Lens Through Which She Can Better Understand Structural Issues in Society