Abraham Asfaw

Abraham Asfaw is a former Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019) at Tulane University's Murphy Institute and Department of Economics. His research focuses on intersections between health, labor, and development economics, with recent work analyzing prescription drug insurance effects on older patients' health behaviors, intergenerational impacts of early health shocks, and cost-sharing mechanisms in healthcare systems.

Education: Ph.D. in Economics from Northern Illinois University (2017).

Research emphasizes policy-relevant questions such as moral hazard in prescription drug insurance and long-term socioeconomic consequences of health interventions. Current projects evaluate how cost-sharing policies balance healthcare utilization and financial sustainability.

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