Current Economics Scholars
received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2010. His research focuses on the causal effect of interventions and institutions on the distribution of individual outcomes in health care, education, and labor markets, and on developing the econometric tools to identify and estimate these effects. Some current projects include a study of the political economy of union wage setting and its effect on the distribution of earnings, and the effect of fragmentation in health care on the distribution of patient outcomes.
received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. His research primarily focuses on the functioning of markets with information asymmetries. His dissertation studied the effects of the diffusion of neonatal intensive care units on infant treatment and health outcomes, and in other work he has examined how consumers respond to product recalls and the effects of information asymmetries in online peer-to-peer lending markets. As a scholar, he is exploring the determinants of hospital technology adoption and the organization of hospital transfer networks. After the Program, he will assume his position as an assistant professor at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economic foundations of consumer choice and market performance in health insurance. His dissertation work uses a large micro-level dataset to study consumer choice adequacy and how that interacts with adverse selection in health insurance markets. More generally, he is interested in the design and performance of regulated health markets, such as health insurance exchanges, and firm competition and regulatory policy in environments in which it is difficult for consumers to make decisions. After the Program, he will take a position as an assistant professor in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Economics.
received a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 2011. His primary research interests are in labor and health economics, with an emphasis on physician labor supply. His dissertation focused on the identification of compensating wage differentials, with empirical applications to the estimation of the price of occupational fatality risk and the implied value of statistical life, as well as the effects of non-compete agreements in physician labor contracts. His other research studies the relationships between physicians’ geographic labor supply decisions and physician quality, and formulary design in the Medicare Part D market.
received a Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University in 2011. He conducts research in the fields of public finance and industrial organization and has a particular interest in health insurance markets. In his dissertation, he examines the implicit health insurance households received from the ability to declare bankruptcy, the effects of supplemental Medigap insurance on overall medical utilization, and the efficiency consequences of community-rating regulations. After completing the Program, he will assume a faculty position at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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