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Publications
“A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search” with Giovanni Compiani and Fan Zhang, forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.
“Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Health Care Expenditures Among Patients Prescribed Semaglutide” with Yuan Lu, Yuntian Liu, Tedi Totojani, Chungsoo Kim, Rohan Khera, Hua Xu, John E. Brush, and Harlan M. Krumholz, JAMA Network Open, Vol. 8, No. 8, 2025.
“When Less is More: Improving Choices in Health Insurance Markets” with Jonathan Gruber, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 90, Issue 3, May 2023.
“Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh” with Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Md. Alamgir Kabir, Ellen Bates-Jefferys, Emily Crawford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Shabib Raihan, Shadman Rahman, Salim Benhachmi, Neeti Zaman, Peter Winch, Maqsud Hossain, Hasan Mahmund Reza, Abdullah All Jaber, Shawkee Gulshan Momen, Aura Rahman, Faika Laz Banti, Tahrima Saiha Huq, Stephen P. Luby, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Science, 2022. (2023 Top 10 Clinical Research Award)
“Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans” with Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull, and Amanda Starc, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 136, Issue 3, August 2021.
“What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses” with Abigail Adams-Prassl, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 136, Issue 3, August 2021.
“The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption and Policies to Increase the Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers” with Judy Chevalier, Nicholas Christakis, Howard Forman, Edward H. Kaplan, Albert Ko, and Sten H. Vermund, COVID Economics, 2020.
“Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets” with Jonathan Gruber and Ashley Swanson, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 164, 2018.
“Trends and Variation in the Utilization and Diagnostic Yield of Chest Imaging for Medicare Patients With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department” with Arjun K. Venkatesh, Leila Agha, Craig Rothenberg, Christopher Kabrhel, and Ali S. Raja, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2018.
“The Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care” with Leila Agha, Chris Kabrhel, Ali Raja, and Arjun Venkatesh, American Economic Review, December 2016.
“Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program: Reply to Ketcham, Kuminoff, and Powers” with Jonathan Gruber, American Economic Review, December 2016.
“Evolving Choice Inconsistencies in Choice of Prescription Drug Insurance” with Jonathan Gruber, American Economic Review, August 2016. (2017 NIHCM Honorable Mention for the Best Paper in Health Economics)
“Heterogeneity in Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Prescription Drug Plan Choice” with Jonathan Gruber, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2011.
“Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program” with Jonathan Gruber, American Economic Review, June 2011. (2012 NIHCM Winner for the Best Paper in Health Economics)
Working Papers
“Trials Avoid High Risk Patients and Underestimate Drug Harms” with Leila Agha and Sachin Shah, Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review.
“Does LLM Assistance Improve Healthcare Delivery? An Evaluation Using On-Site Physicians and Laboratory Tests” with Robert Pless, Nirmal Ravi, Anja Sautmann, and Aaron Schwartz, Revise & Resubmit, Nature Human Behavior.
“Insurance with Multiple Actors” with Oren Sarig and Jintaek Song.
“Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence” with Leila Agha, David C. Chan, and Daniel Singer.