Working Papers
Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence (with Jason Abaluck, David Chan, Daniel Singer, and Diana Zhu). Under review.
Association of Hospital Adoption of Probiotics with Very Low Birth Weight Infant Outcomes (with Christopher Brown, Erika Edwards, Jeffrey Horbar, Roger F. Soll, and Douglas Staiger). Under review.
Publications
Improving Efficiency in Medical Diagnosis (with Jonathan Skinner and David Chan).
Journal of the American Medical Association, May 23, 2022.
The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization (with Keith Marzilli Ericson and Xiaoxi Zhao).
Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation (with Soomi Kim and Danielle Li).
American Economic Review: Insights, June 2022.
NBER WP Version.
Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments (with Dan Zeltzer).
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022.
Summary on VoxEU. NBER WP Version.
Team Relationships and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks (with Keith Marzilli Ericson, Kimberley Geissler, and James Rebitzer).
Forthcoming in Management Science.
Previous Title: “Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks”
Fragmented Division of Labor and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Moves Across Regions (with Brigham Frandsen and James Rebitzer)
Journal of Public Economics, January 2019.
Summary in NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health
Previous title: “Causes and Consequences of Fragmented Care Delivery: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy”
The Influence of Pioneer Investigators on Technology Adoption: Evidence from New Cancer Drugs (with David Molitor)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2018.
NBER Working Paper Version
Trends and Variation in the Utilization and Diagnostic Yield of Chest Imaging for Medicare Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department (with Arjun K. Venkatesh, Jason Abaluck, Craig Rothenberg, Christopher Kabrhel and Ali Raja), American Journal of Roentgenology, March 2018.
Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care (with Jason Abaluck, Christopher Kabrhel, Ali Raja, and Arjun Venkatesh)
American Economic Review, December 2016.
NBER Working Paper Version
NIHCM Award Honorable Mention
Previous title: “Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: What Determines Heterogeneity in Imaging Overuse?”
Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select Top Science Proposals? (with Danielle Li)
Science, 24 April 2015.
Press coverage: Nature, Chronicle of Higher Education, Science News, Retraction Watch, Science
The Effects of Health Information Technology on Costs and Quality of Medical Care
Journal of Health Economics, March 2014.