Marcus Dillender is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research lies at the intersection of health, labor, and public economics and focuses on occupational health, workers’ compensation insurance, public health and public health insurance programs, and health care labor markets. Dillender received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. Prior to working at Vanderbilt, he worked at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dillender joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2024.