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Claudia Gonzalez Martinez
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Dr. Gonzalez Martinez is an economist with ten years of post-doctoral experience centered on international development, health care and labor and employment. In international development, she has conducted retrospective impact evaluations and growth diagnostic studies, among others. She has also developed cost-effectiveness measures to assess health care interventions in developing countries. In health care, Dr. Gonzalez Martinez has focused on 1) several aspects of federal and state programs such as Medicaid and Medicare; 2) potential anti-competitive and quality of service consequences of hospital mergers, hospital-insurance mergers, and insurance mergers for several geographical markets; and (3) the pharmaceutical industry and its pricing policies and schemes. Dr. Gonzalez Martinez has worked as an economic consultant in the area of labor and employment. She has evaluated claims of discrimination based on gender, national origin, race, age, and disability with respect to a wide variety of employment practices including salary, total compensation, promotions, bonuses, performance ratings, hiring, dismissals, layoffs, and overtime. She has consulted on a wide range of additional employment issues, including claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and related state laws. Dr. Gonzalez Martinez has analyzed and worked with large and complex datasets. These include, among others, the Decennial Census of Population, CPS, HRS, Medicare and Medicaid claims data, NAMCS, NLSY, PSID, Guatemala's Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida (ENCOVIs), other countries micro data, many private corporations' personnel history and payroll files, and several large prices and statistics compendia. Specialties: consulting, economics, statistical analysis, labor economics, health economics, healthcare data and other large and complex datasets, international development, data management, forecasting, research.