Michael graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017 with a B.A. in Economics. Upon graduation he worked as a research assistant with Professor Ben Handel and Professor Jonathan Kolstad exploring topics in health insurance working with Utah’s All Payers Claims Database (APCD). His current work includes projects exploring the impact of the thick tailed distribution of health expenditure on diversification of risk, the unequal distribution of health care inflation on income strata, and the low uptake on narrow network plans in the small group market. Other research interests include asymmetries in employer and employee value for insurance and the impact of pharmaceutical detailing on downstream physician prescribing behavior. He is a 2022 recipient of the NSF graduate student fellowship.