Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Education

• B.A., Economics and Mathematics, University of Oregon, 2000
• Ph.D., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006

Current Areas of Interest

• Health
• Applied Econometrics
• Industrial Organization

Working Papers

• "Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth"
  • with Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro
• "Implications of Utilization Shifts on Medical-Care Price Measurement"
  • with Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro
• "Developing a Framework for Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth: Exploring Issues of Representativeness"
  • with Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro
• "Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures"
  • with Adam Shapiro (2011)
• "Geographic Variation in Commercial Medical-Care Expenditures: A Framework for Decomposing Price and Utilization "
  • Co-Authors: Adam Shapiro and Eli Liebman
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Paper, July 2011
• "The Effect of Health Insurance Competition when Private Insurers Compete with a Public Option"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Paper, September 2011

Selected Publications

• "Medical Care Price Indexes for Patients with Employer-Provided Insurance: Nationally-Representative Estimates from MarketScan Data"
  • Health Services Research, Forthcoming
• "Drug Innovations and Welfare Measures Computed from Market Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs"
  • American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, (2012), 4(3) pgs 167-89
• "The Value of Coverage in the Medicare Advantage Insurance Market"
  • Journal of Health Economics, (2010), 29(6) pgs 839-855
• "Do Low-Quality Products Affect High-quality Entry? Multiproduct Firms and Nonstop Entry in Airline Markets"
  • International Journal of Industrial Organization, (2008), 26(5), pgs 1074-1089