Areas of Interest
Industrial organization
Health economics
Public economics
Education
Contact Information
3022 Broadway
Uris 621
Columbia Business School
New York, NY 10027
Email: ats2180 <at> gsb.columbia.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Publications and Papers Under Review
Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement (with Glenn Ellison)
Submitted.
Mergers and Marginal Costs: New Evidence on Hospital Buyer Power (with Stuart Craig and Matthew Grennan)
Submitted.
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs (with Amanda Starc)
Revisions requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare (with Matthew Grennan, Kyle Myers, and Aaron Chatterji)
Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining (with Matthew Grennan)
Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.
Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets (with Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber)
Journal of Public Economics 164: 106-138, 2018.
Social Impact Bonds: New Product or New Package? (with Mark Pauly)
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 33(4): 718–760, 2017.
Early Medicaid Expansion Reduced Payday Borrowing in California (with Heidi Allen, Tal Gross, and Jialan Wang)
Health Affairs, October 2017.
Marketplace Plans With Narrow Physician Networks Feature Lower Monthly Premiums Than Plans With Larger Networks (with Dan Polsky and Zuleyha Cidav)
Health Affairs, October 2016.
Do Schools Matter for High Math Achievement? Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions (with Glenn Ellison)
American Economic Review 106(6): 1244-77, 2016.
The Closeness-Communication Bias: Increased Egocentrism among Friends Versus Strangers (with Kenneth Savitzky, Boaz Keysar, Nick Epley, and Travis Carter)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47(1): 269-273, 2011.
The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions (with Glenn Ellison)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(2): 109-128, 2010.
Working Papers
Physician Investment in Hospitals: Specialization, Incentives, and the Quality of Cardiac Care
Diagnosing Price Dispersion: Demand, Bargaining, and Search in Hospital-Supplier Contracting (with Matthew Grennan)
Research in Progress
The Evolution of Returns to New Medical Innovations (with Andrea Austin, Jonathan Kolstad, Jonathan Skinner, and Robert Town)
Persuasion and Welfare in Physician-Industry Relations: Evidence from the Medical Device Industry (with Matthew Grennan and Kyle Myers)
Vertical Integration and Control: Evidence from Medical Technology (with Stuart Craig, Matthew Grennan, and Joseph Martinez)
Consumer Inertia in the ACA Exchanges (with Daniel Polsky and Evan Saltzman)
Industrial organization
Health economics
Public economics
Education
Contact Information
3022 Broadway
Uris 621
Columbia Business School
New York, NY 10027
Email: ats2180 <at> gsb.columbia.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Publications and Papers Under Review
Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement (with Glenn Ellison)
Submitted.
Mergers and Marginal Costs: New Evidence on Hospital Buyer Power (with Stuart Craig and Matthew Grennan)
Submitted.
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs (with Amanda Starc)
Revisions requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare (with Matthew Grennan, Kyle Myers, and Aaron Chatterji)
Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining (with Matthew Grennan)
Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.
Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets (with Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber)
Journal of Public Economics 164: 106-138, 2018.
Social Impact Bonds: New Product or New Package? (with Mark Pauly)
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 33(4): 718–760, 2017.
Early Medicaid Expansion Reduced Payday Borrowing in California (with Heidi Allen, Tal Gross, and Jialan Wang)
Health Affairs, October 2017.
Marketplace Plans With Narrow Physician Networks Feature Lower Monthly Premiums Than Plans With Larger Networks (with Dan Polsky and Zuleyha Cidav)
Health Affairs, October 2016.
Do Schools Matter for High Math Achievement? Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions (with Glenn Ellison)
American Economic Review 106(6): 1244-77, 2016.
The Closeness-Communication Bias: Increased Egocentrism among Friends Versus Strangers (with Kenneth Savitzky, Boaz Keysar, Nick Epley, and Travis Carter)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47(1): 269-273, 2011.
The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions (with Glenn Ellison)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(2): 109-128, 2010.
Working Papers
Physician Investment in Hospitals: Specialization, Incentives, and the Quality of Cardiac Care
Diagnosing Price Dispersion: Demand, Bargaining, and Search in Hospital-Supplier Contracting (with Matthew Grennan)
Research in Progress
The Evolution of Returns to New Medical Innovations (with Andrea Austin, Jonathan Kolstad, Jonathan Skinner, and Robert Town)
Persuasion and Welfare in Physician-Industry Relations: Evidence from the Medical Device Industry (with Matthew Grennan and Kyle Myers)
Vertical Integration and Control: Evidence from Medical Technology (with Stuart Craig, Matthew Grennan, and Joseph Martinez)
Consumer Inertia in the ACA Exchanges (with Daniel Polsky and Evan Saltzman)