Maya Rossin-Slater

Maya Rossin-Slater
Alma materColumbia University (MA; PhD); University of California, Berkeley (BA)
AwardsNational Science Foundation CAREER Award; Elaine Bennett Research Prize
Scientific career
FieldsHealth economics
InstitutionsStanford University
Thesis Social Policy and Family Well-Being: Essays in Applied Microeconomics  (2013)
Doctoral advisorJanet Currie; Ilyana Kuziemko; Wojciech Kopczuk

Maya Rossin-Slater is an American health economist currently serving as Associate Professor of Health Policy in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research examines the causal effects of social policies and events in utero on the well-being of families and children in the United States. In 2023 Rossin-Slater received the Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded annually by the American Economic Association to the best female economist not more than ten years beyond her PhD. She is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.