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Antonio Trujillo (graduated 2000). Antonio's interests include health economics, public finance, and institutional behavior. His dissertation evaluates alternative policy options in the context of a social health insurance with an equalization fund. In particular, he studied whether risk selection occurs in a social health insurance with an equalization fund. He also analyzed how social health insurance coverage affects the individual probability of using medical care. A fully specified model that captures the interactions among medical care use, social health insurance and private health insurance is estimated using individual data from Colombia. He was teaching assistant in advance Microeconomics at the Department of Public Policy Analysis and in advance Econometrics at the School of Public Health. He has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank on a project for reforming the social security system in Venezuela, and as a research assistant at the Carolina Population Center. He earned a BA in economics from the Catholic University Andres Bello and an MA in public policy from Columbia University. He is now Assistant Professor in the Program of Health Administration in the College of Public Health at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.
