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CURRENT POSITION:
Associate Policy Researcher - RAND Corporation 

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Health Economics - UC Berkeley - 2017

M.I.A. - International Development - UC San Diego - 2010

B.A. - Psychology - University of Oregon - 2005

RESEARCH FIELDS

Economics: Health Economics, Development Economics, Behavioral Economics 

Global Health Policy: Child Diarrhea, Community Health Workers, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment, Health Insurance for the Poor, Health and Employment, Private Sector Healthcare

US Health Policy:  HIV Testing Behavior, Consumer Directed Health Plans, Price Shopping for Health Services, Opioid Abuse

Email: zwagner@rand.org

JOB MARKET PAPER
Working With Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea In Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Link)

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft-Neal, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, Eran Bendavid (2018). “Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa”. The Lancet.

2. Neeraj Sood and Zachary Wagner (2018). “Social Health Insurance for the Poor: Lessons from a Health Insurance Program in Karnataka, India”. BMJ Global Health. 
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3. Neeraj Sood, Xinke Zhang, Zachary Wagner, Ateev Mehrotra, Peter Huckfeldt, Amelia Haviland (2017). “Does Enrollment in High Deductible Health Plans Encourage Price Shopping”. Health Services Research.

4. Zachary Wagner, Erick Gong, Damien de Walque, William H. Dow (2016). “The Impact of Positive Income Shocks on Risky Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania”. Aids and Behavior.

5. Emmanuel Drabo, Joel Hay, Raffaele Vardavas, Zachary Wagner, and Neeraj Sood (2016). “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis For The Prevention Of HIV Among Los Angeles County Men Who Have Sex With Men”. Clinical Infectious Disease.

6. Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner, and Adeline Delevande (2016). “Repeat HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Zomba, Malawi.” Journal of Aids & Clinical Research.

7.  Neeraj Sood and Zachary Wagner (2015). “The Impact of Health Insurance for Tertiary Care on Postoperative Outcomes and Seeking Care for Symptoms: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Karnataka, India”. BMJ Open.

8.  Peter Huckfeldt, Amelia Haviland, Ateev Mehrotra, Zachary Wagner, and Neeraj Sood (2015). “Patient Responses to Incentives in Consumer-directed Health Plans: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals”. NBER Working Paper No. 20927.

9.  Zachary Wagner, Jeremy Barofsky, and Neeraj Sood (2015). “PEPFAR Funding Associated With An Increase In Employment Among Males in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries” Health Affairs.

10.  Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner, and Yanyu Wu (2015). “The Impact of Insurance on HIV Testing.” American Journal of Health Economics.

11.  Zachary Wagner, Manan Shah, and Neeraj Sood (2014). ”Barriers To Use Of Oral Rehydration Salts For Child Diarrhea In The Private Sector: Evidence From India.” Journal of Tropical Pediatrics.

12.  Neeraj Sood, Eran Bendavid, Arnab Mukherji, Zachary Wagner, Somil Nagpal, and Patrick Mullen (2014). “Government health insurance for people below poverty line in India: quasi-experimental evaluation of insurance and health outcomes.” BMJ.

13.  Zachary Wagner, Peter G. Szilagyi, and Neeraj Sood (2014). ”Comparative Performance of Public and Private Sector Delivery of BCG Vaccination: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa.” Vaccine.

14.  Zachary Wagner, Yanyu Wu, and Neeraj Sood (2014). “The Affordable Care Act May Increase The Number Of People Getting Tested For HIV By Nearly 500,000 By 2017.” Health Affairs.

15.  Neeraj Sood and Zachary Wagner (2014). “Private Sector Provision of Oral Rehydration Therapy for Child Diarrhea in Sub-Saharan Africa.” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 

16.  Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner, Peter Huckfeldt, and Amelia Haviland (2013).  “Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans.” Forum for Health Economics and Policy. 

17.  Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner, Amber Jaycocks, Emmanuel Drabo, and Raffaele Vardavas (2013). “Test and Treat in Los Angeles: A mathematical model of the effects of test-and-treat for the MSM population in LA County.” Clinical Infectious Disease. 

18.  Neeraj Sood, Zachary Wagner, Amber Jaycocks, Emmanuel Drabo, and Raffaele Vardavas (2013).”Reply to Gonzalez-Serna et al.” Clinical Infectious Disease.

19.  Neeraj Sood and Zachary Wagner (2012). "For-profit sector immunization service provision in Kenya: does low provision create a barrier to take-up?" Health Policy and Planning.

WORKING PAPERS:
1. Zachary Wagner, Somalee Banerjee, Manoj Mohanan, and Neeraj Sood. “Does the Market Reward Quality?: Evidence from Bihar India”
2. Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe, William H. Dow, and David I. Levine. “The role of price and convenience in underuse of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial of free ORS distribution and preemptive home delivery in Uganda:”. Submitted
3. Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe, and David I. Levine. “When Financial Incentives Backfire: Evidence from a community health worker experiment in Uganda” 
4. Zachary Wagner, Juan Carlos C. Montoy, Emmanuel F. Drabo, and William H. Dow “Incentives Versus Defaults: Cost-Effectiveness of Behavioral Approaches for HIV Screening”. Submitted
5. Jeremy Barofsky, Zachary Wagner, and Neeraj Sood. “The Impact of ART Scale-Up on Labor Force Participation in Malawi.”