Job Market Candidate
Stanford University
(Stanford Economics job market candidates)
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6006
I am on the job market during the 2022-2023 academic year
Health Economics, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Market Design
Primary Fields:
Labor Economics, Economics of Discrimination and Diversity, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Fields:
May 2023
Expected Graduation Date
Committee:
Muriel Niederle (co-Primary):
Alvin E Roth (co-Primary):
Nicholas Bloom:
Laurence C Baker (co-Primary):
Michelle Mello:
Job Market Paper
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All-California Labor Economics Conference Outstanding Poster Award
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Invited Talk, Rising Stars in Market Design (University of Tokyo)
Discrimination against doctors is important but scantly studied. I report a field experiment which observes that customers discriminate against Black and Asian doctors when they choose healthcare providers, and that this can be substantially reduced by supplying information on physician quality. I evaluate customer preferences in the field with an online platform where cash-paying consumers can shop and book a provider for medical procedures based on a novel experimental paradigm. Actual paying customers evaluate doctor options they know to be hypothetical to be matched with a customized menu of real doctors, preserving incentives. Racial discrimination reduces patient willingness-to-pay for Black and Asian doctors by 12.7% and 8.7% of the average colonoscopy price respectively; customers are willing to travel 100-250 miles to see a white doctor instead of a Black doctor, and somewhere between 50-100 to 100-250 miles to see a white doctor instead of an Asian doctor. Providing signals of doctor quality reduces this willingness-to-pay racial gap by about 90%. Willingness-to-pay penalties on minority doctors are multiples of actual average racial quality differences and even the difference between doctors in highest and lowest quality levels. This field evidence shifts the focus beyond traditional taste-based and statistical discrimination to include behavioral mechanisms like biased beliefs and deniable prejudice. Discrimination against Black doctors are higher for non-college-graduate customers and residents in zipcodes that voted for the 2020 presidential candidate on the political right. Actual booking behavior allows cross-validation of incentive compatibility of the stated preference elicitation.
Working Papers
(with Alvin E. Roth)
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
We conduct a lab experiment that shows current rules regulating transplant centers (TCs) and organ procurement organizations (OPOs) create perverse incentives that inefficiently reduce both organ recovery and beneficial transplantations. We model the decision environment with a 2-player multi-period game between an OPO and a TC. In the condition that simulates current rules, OPOs recover only highest-quality kidneys and forgo valuable recovery opportunities, and TCs decline some beneficial transplants and perform some unnecessary transplants. Alternative regulations that reward TCs and OPOs together for health outcomes in the entire patient pool lead to behaviors that increase organ recovery and appropriate transplants.
Work In-Progress
2021, Stanford University Working Paper
Implementation of liver exchange using algorithm from this paper (in progress): Liver Exchange: A Pathway to Increase Access to Transplantation
Women in Emergency Medicine Improve Health Outcomes
Draft coming soon
Priority and Prejudice: Racial Disparities Among Transplant Candidates
Draft coming soon
Draft coming soon
Publications
2021, New England Journal of Medicine 385: 766-768
2020, JAMA 323(3): 278-279
(with Kevin Schulman)
2020, JAMA Health Forum 1(3): e200291
1st author (with Isabel Chien, Edward Moseley, Saad Salman, Sarah Kaminer Bourland, Daniela Lamas, Anne M Walling, James A Tulsky, Charlotta Lindvall)
2019, Palliative Medicine 33(2): 187-196
Teaching
BIOS 203: Market Design and Field Experiments for Health Policy and Medicine
Fall 2021, Stanford University, Primary Instructor
Instructor evaluation: 5.0 out of 5.0
HPM 206: Economic Analysis
Fall 2017, Harvard University, Head Teaching Assistant
Teaching evaluation: 4.7 out of 5.0