Layton celebrated for Best Research in Health Econometrics 

The American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) has awarded 30^th Anniversary Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Timothy Layton, the Willard G. Manning Award for Best Research in Health Econometrics. ASHEcon awards recognize significant contributions to the field of health economics, highlighting both emerging and established leaders, providing a platform to celebrate exceptional peers, colleagues, and students, helping to elevate the field of health economics and promote continued excellence in research.

In addition to his work at the Harvard medical School Department of Health Care policy, Layton is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated researcher at J-PAL at MIT. His research focuses on the economics of health insurance markets and programs, particularly those serving low-income households, like Medicaid and the Health Insurance Marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act. Layton and his collaborators use theoretical and empirical models of health insurer behavior to understand how to identify key problems with these markets and programs and identify policies to address those problems. 

Layton earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and his PhD from Boston University. He is the co-chair of the economics track of the Health Policy PhD Program at Harvard and teaches courses on applied econometrics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.