I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in healthcare and public economics.
In my job market paper I examine the incentives of hospitals to ration care. I show that as hospitals become more crowded, the patients they treat experience worse health outcomes. I then evaluate whether consumers would benefit from policies that reduce crowding but increase waiting times for non-emergency appointments. I find that these policies would reduce consumer welfare, and consumers would instead benefit from more crowding and worse health outcomes because of the waiting time benefits that this creates.
In my other research papers I examine: (i) how physicians respond when pressured to reduce waiting times in the emergency department; and (ii) the incentives created by readmission penalties and the role of discharge decisions in causing readmissions.
My past experience includes working as an economist in the public and private sector on policy issues in antitrust, healthcare, and financial services.