Affiliation: Schaeffer Center
Research areas: Health care provider market structure, economics of physician treatment and referral decisions
Mentor: Erin Trish
Term: 08/2020-08/2023
Overview: Samuel Valdez is a Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate at the USC Schaeffer Center. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests focus on health care provider market structure, the price, quality, and network determination in provider markets, and the economics of physician treatment and referral decisions.