Darius Lakdawalla

Overview

Darius Lakdawalla is a health economist at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics (formerly at RAND). His research spans disability trends, long-term care, obesity, and pharmaceutical economics. Co-author of the early evidence documenting rising disability among working-age Americans using NHIS data.

Key Contributions / Features

• Lakdawalla, Bhattacharya, and Goldman (2004): Documented the young/old divergence in U.S. disability trends 1984–1996 using NHIS; rising obesity as the leading partial explanation for working-age disability expansion.
• Long-term care demand forecasting: projected that rising young disability could increase the future nursing home population by 10–25%.

Related

• Jayanta Bhattacharya
• Dana Goldman
• Compression of Morbidity
• Lakdawalla Bhattacharya and Goldman 2004 — Are the Young Becoming More Disabled

Sources

• Lakdawalla Bhattacharya and Goldman 2004 — Are the Young Becoming More Disabled
• Butcher and Park 2008 — Obesity, Disability, and the Labor Force