Bio
Michael (Mike) Pesko is a professor and the J. Rhoads Foster Chair of Economics at the University of Missouri. His research identifies the effects of health policy changes by combining economics reasoning, causal research methods, and survey and administrative data sources. He is also the director of the Social Impact Lab, a multidisciplinary research community dedicated to turning innovative ideas into rigorous research that improves population health and well-being, and the director of the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar, a free multidisciplinary, international forum for research with tobacco policy implications using experimental or quasi-experimental study designs.