Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2010
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 2009
B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2010 - present
(Currently on a leave of absence until August 2012)
- Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of Michigan, 2010 - present
- Research Assistant, University of Maryland, 2007 - 2009
- Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, 2005 - 2007
- Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, 2004 - 2005
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2009 – Spring 2010
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland, Fall 2009
- NET Institute Summer Research Grant, Summer 2008
- Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, Summer 2008
- Second Prize for Best Third Year Paper, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 2008
- Graduate Assistantship, University of Maryland, Fall 2005 – Spring 2009
- Phi Beta Kappa, University Honors, Economics Department Honors, The Max Hochschild Prize for Excellence in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, May 2005
Professional Interests
Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics
Current Projects
Working Papers
- “The Effect of Deregionalization on Health Outcomes: Evidence from Neonatal Intensive Care” (Under Review)
- “Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com,” (with Ginger Jin) (Under Review)
- “Social Networks in Peer-to-Peer Lending,” (with Ginger Jin)
- “The Effect of Neonatal Intensive Care Availability on Utilization”
Work in Progress:
- “What Do You Buy When You Aren’t Buying Cigarettes?” (with Craig Garthwaite)
- “Public Health Insurance Expansion and Hospital Technology Adoption,” (with Kosali Simon)
Selected Publications
Full Vita (pdf)
“Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls,” (with Melissa Kearney and Mara Lederman), The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).
