RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primry fields:
Health economics
Public finance
Industrial organization
Research questions:
- Does treatment substitution (substitution of old technologies with new technologies) or treatment expansion (the treatment of a greater number of illnesses) play a greater role in the rise of health care costs?
- How can health technology research dollars be optimally allocated when considering the impacts on the long-run cost of care?
- Why does prescription drug use vary accross different geographical regions?
TEACHING
Economics 157: Health Economics - Instructor - Summer 2008 & Summer 2009
OTHER INFORMATION
Faculty adviser: Alan Auerbach
Program affiliation:
Agency for Health Research and Quality, pre-doctoral fellow 2007-200
Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare (headed by Prof. Richard Scheffler)