Maripier Isabelle

Maripier Isabelle is an assistant professor at l’Université Laval’s Department of economics, and the chairholder of the Sentinel North research chair in economics and brain health. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality, at INSEAD (France), where she was also a Marie-Curie fellow and a Prestige fellow. She completed a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto, and a master’s degree in economics from l’Université Laval.

She is a faculty associate at the Canadian Center for Health Economics, an associate member at the Centre de recherche sur les risques, les enjeux économiques et les politiques publiques, and she serves on the executive committee for the Canadian Health Economics Association.

Research Overview

Maripier Isabelle’s research combines tools developed in economics, recent advances from research in psychiatry and the expertise developed within the healthcare system to study the causal links between these phenomena. Some of her projects seek to develop new approaches exploiting clinical and sociodemographic data to better understand the impact of the social and economic status of individuals at risk of developing major psychiatric disorders on their health trajectories and their healthcare consumption. In other work, she seeks to isolate the impact of changes to individuals’ absolute and relative income on their healthcare utilization, and on their socioeconomic mobility.

Maripier Isabelle’s work also investigates the impact of growing income and wealth inequalities on the organization and performance of health care systems, especially with regards to changes in the demand for and supply of, respectively, publicly and privately financed care.

Finally, her research contributes to improving our understanding of the impact that various financial incentive may have on physicians’ behaviour, on the volume and nature of the care they provide, and more generally, on their labour supply. She uses administrative data to study how such incentives can affect the allocation of resources within the healthcare system, and how they can affect patient care.

Publications

Stabile, M. and M. Isabelle (2018) “Rising inequality and the implications for the future of private insurance in Canada”, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 13: 406-432. Aggarwal, R., Isabelle M. and M. Stabile (2019) “Planting the seeds or squandering the fruits? Ontario’s basic income experiment”, INSEAD, 03/2019-6390, France.

Prizes and awards

Hartle Award for outstanding graduate scholarship on a policy relevant topic, Rotman Institute for International Business, University of Toronto (2018) Maurice Cody Research Fellowship, University of Toronto (2017) H. Stanley Hunnisett Fund Award, University of Toronto (2016) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, CRSH (2013-2016) Distinction for best master’s thesis, Faculté des Sciences sociales, Université Laval (2012) Joseph-Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, CRSH (2011) Governor General’s Academic Medal (silver) (2010)