Economics Research

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Publications

• “Prescribing Power and Equitable Access to Care: Evidence from Pharmacists in Ontario, Canada” (with Guan Wang). Forthcoming, Journal of Health Economics.
• “An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? The Value of Health Risk Information”. Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025.
• “Medical Bill Shock and Imperfect Moral Hazard” (with David Anderson & Ed Zhu) Journal of Public Economics, 2024.
• “What Would it Take for the United States to Adopt Universal Managed Competition to Improve the Equity and Efficiency of its Health Care System?” (with Randall Ellis & Angie Acquatella). Health Economics, Policy, and Law, 2024.
• “It’s No Accident: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Vehicle Safety Inspections” (with Trevor Woolley). Contemporary Economic Policy, 2018.

Working Papers

• “Innovations and Inequities in Access to Medical Services”, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Public Economics.
• “The Protective Effects of a Healthy Spouse: Medicare as the Family Member of Last Resort” (joint with Itzik Fadlon, Tal Gross, & Timothy Layton)
• “Endogenous Screening and Health Behaviors” (with Michael Darden)
• “Learning Something from Nothing? How False Positive Screening Shapes Household Healthcare Utilization” (joint with Emily Lawler & Tamar Oostrom)

Works in Progress

Drafts/slides available upon request

• “Child Maltreatment Investigations and Household Well-being” (with Maripier Isabelle, Chris Mills, and Boriana Miloucheva)
• “The Impacts of Mental Health Drug Use and Discontinuation in the Perinatal Period: Short and Long-term Outcomes for Mothers and Children” (with Claire Boone, Emily Lawler, \& Boriana Miloucheva)
• “Association Between Documented Dementia Diagnosis and Caregiver Mental Health Among Medicare Enrollees” (with Malaz Boustani, Jennifer Carnahan, Christopher Dunphy, Tal Gross, Timothy Layton, Richard Meraz, \& Kosali Simon).
• “Primary Care Physicians and Patient Health: Evidence from Electronic Health Records” (with Itzik Fadlon).