Professor Leibowitz, an economist
and leading scholar in health policy, focuses on health
care and labor economics in her research. Leibowitz has examined the effects of cost-sharing and of managed
care on patients' use of the health care system. Her current work focuses
on the cost of financing of HIV care and care for children with emotional problems.
Her research on labor issues
has focused on maternity leave and child care issues, including the effect
of maternity leave legislation on the participation of new mothers in the
labor force and examining the correlation between the amount of time parents
spend with young children and the children’s tested IQ, academic achievement
and income.
A member of the Los Angeles
County Task Force on Access to Health Care, Leibowitz has testified on
health care financing issues before committees of the California Assembly
and Congress. During her 18-year career at RAND Corporation, she served
as director of the Center for the Study of Employee Benefits and as associate
director of the RAND Health Sciences Program.
