Michael Pesko

Michael Pesko is a health economist and an Assistant Professor within Georgia State University's Department of Economics. Dr. Pesko's research uses retrospectively-collected data and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate health policy changes, especially those affecting tobacco users. Dr. Pesko has published ≈40 peer reviewed papers, and has 11 published papers and working papers on e-cigarette policy evaluations in particular. Dr. Pesko is currently the principal investigator of an R01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse evaluating the effects of e-cigarette regulations.