PhD Candidate
117 Encina Commons, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6006
Office phone: (650)497-6971


I am a PhD candidate in Health Economics at Stanford University. Before Stanford, I have extensive experience in the healthcare industry starting as a McKinsey consultant, and most recently as Senior Vice President of Market Strategy with Optum/UnitedHealth before joining academia. I received my MPH in Health Policy from Harvard University.
Health Economics, Market Design, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Economics of Discrimination and Diversity, Labor Economics
Fields:
Laurence C Baker (co-P)
References:
Alvin E Roth (co-P)
Michelle Mello
Muriel Niederle (co-P)
Working Paper
This paper provides evidence that customer discrimination in the market for doctors can be largely accounted for by inaccurate statistical discrimination. 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 called validated incentivized conjoint analysis (VIC). 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. Further, providing signals of doctor quality reduces this willingness-to-pay racial gap by about 90%, which suggests that statistical discrimination is an important cause of the gap. The willingness-to-pay penalties on minority doctors are multiples of actual average quality differences, which suggest that inaccurate or behavioral statistical discrimination is at play. Actual booking behavior allows cross-validation of incentive compatibility of stated preference elicitation via VIC.
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
Other Working Papers
With Alvin E. Roth (submitted)
2021, Stanford Health Policy Working Paper
Implementation of liver exchange using algorithm from this paper (in progress): Liver Exchange: A Pathway to Increase Access to Transplantation
Works in Progress
Emergency Care by Female Doctors and Reduced Mortality
Why Can You Buy a Body but Not a Kidney? An Experiment on Repugnance Conveyance
With Kurt Sweat
Teaching
BIOS 203: Market Design and Field Experiments for Health Policy and Medicine
Fall 2021, Stanford University, Primary Instructor
Teaching 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