CARE Seminar: Tim Layton, Virginia Batten
Speaker
Professor Tim Layton, Virginia Batten
Biography
Timothy Layton is an associate professor of public policy and economics, specializing in health economics, at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Layton's research focuses on the economics of health insurance markets, with a particular focus on markets and social health insurance programs for low-income households. His research involves a mix of empirical and conceptual work studying how and why health insurance markets often struggle to provide the contracts consumers want at prices they can afford. He is an international expert in adverse selection in health insurance markets and policy tools to correct selection-induced market distortions. He also studies the design of social insurance programs, especially Medicaid and Medicare, with particular focus on private provision of public social insurance benefits and how to design programs that are optimized for the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.
Layton is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated researcher at J-PAL at MIT. He sits on the editorial board of the American Journal of Health Economics and will start a term as an editor at the Journal of Health Economics in January 2025. Prior to coming to UVA, Layton was the 30th Anniversary Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Layton's research has been published in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, American Economic Review, Insights, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Journal of Health Economics. He has also published widely in top clinical and health policy journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. He has won numerous awards for his work including the Willard Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics from the American Society of Health Economists, the Mark Satterthwaite Award for Outstanding Research in Healthcare Markets from the Kellogg School of Management, and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association. His work is funded from a variety of sources, including grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Arnold Ventures, and J-PAL.
Layton has taught courses on health policy and health economics and advanced econometric methods for causal inference. He has advised many students over the course of his career, many of whom have gone on to top jobs in academies, government, and industry.
He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He has three boys and loves mountain biking, hiking, and trail running.
