Training in Aging and Health Economics - Graduate Fellows

Michael Briskin is studying the widespread adoption of private health insurance in the 1940s and 1950s and its effects on physician labor markets and health outcomes in the US.

Theodore Caputi is studying behavioral aspects of public health, such as drug use, violence, and crime, and their effects on economic outcomes.

Rebekah Dix is studying externalities in medical innovation and how interoperability and technological frictions affect patients and healthcare providers.

Marema Gaye is studying the economics of mental health care and mental health clinician non-participation in public health insurance.

Dean Li is studying the effects of outsourcing, technological change, and consolidation on healthcare labor markets and healthcare delivery.

Kelsey Moran is studying the factors influencing hospital provision of charity care as well as the effects of health information exchange on patients and organizations.

James Okun is studying the effects of government buyer power on health care markets as well as the quality of publicly-financed nursing home care in the United States and how it interacts with selective admissions practices. 

Graeme Peterson is studying health insurance markets, environmental health, and the causes and consequences of racial disparities in the US healthcare system.

Anthony Bald is studying the health and welfare of school-aged children and the supply of healthcare workers in historical perspective.

Theodore Caputi is studying behavioral aspects of public health, such as drug use, violence, and crime, and their effects on economic outcomes.

Woojin Kim is examining the extent of political differences in medical practice across the United States and the impact of the increasingly polarized political climate.

Steven Lee is studying behavioral factors that drive take-up of health care, including vaccines and alternative medicine.

Dean Li is studying the effects of outsourcing, technological change, and consolidation on healthcare labor markets and healthcare delivery.

Kelsey Moran is studying the factors influencing hospital provision of charity care as well as the effects of health information exchange on patients and organizations.

Ilana Salant is studying the economics of long-term and post-acute care, with a specific focus on home-based care.

Connie Xu is researching topics at the intersection of labor and health economics, with a focus on innovation, the healthcare and life sciences workforce, and the economics of science.

Aaron Berman is studying factors that influence the take-up of health care, particularly vaccines, in developed and developing countries.

Travis Donahoe’s research examines social and economic determinants of mortality, with an emphasis on harmful substance-related deaths in the United States.

Geoffrey Kocks is focusing on the impact of various policy interventions on educational and racial disparities in health outcomes.

Chika Okafor is studying health disparities arising from the criminal justice system and from climate change.

Anna Russo is investigating the efficiency and distributional consequences of capacity constraints and rationing in health care.

Ilana Salant is studying the industrial organization of healthcare providers, including effects of private equity on hospital markets and effects of vertical integration between providers and insurers.

Myles Wagner is researching selection and policy design in health insurance markets.

Matthew Zahn is examining how competition between payers and providers in healthcare markets affects health outcomes.

Kevin Connolly investigates the causal effects of increased access to college on long-term life outcomes, particularly health outcomes such as longevity.

Aileen Devlin studies determinants of health care, looking at both how provider availability and insurance (Medicare) reimbursement policy shapes care utilization.

Travis Donahoe examines determinants of rising drug overdose deaths in the US and the impacts of interventions which aim to reduce drug overdose deaths.

Pragya Kakani is interested in the economics of provider organizations, technology adoption, and the intersection of these topics in the U.S.

Chika Okafor studies health disparities arising from the criminal justice system and from climate change.

Sarah Robinson focuses on public economics and health economics, particularly health insurance.

Anna Russo studies the determinants and effects of access to health care.

Anthony Yu studies the impact of government regulation on the market structure and responses of incumbent healthcare providers.

Angie Acquatella studies the effects of financial incentives on health care providers, focusing on their implications for the efficiency of health care delivery, as well as the design of health care policy.

Kevin Connolly investigates the causal effects of increased access to college on long-term life outcomes, particularly health outcomes such as longevity.

Pragya Kakani is interested in the economics of provider organizations, technology adoption, and the intersection of these topics in the U.S.

Amanda Kreider research interests are in the economics of health insurance markets, Medicaid, mental health care, long-term care, and safety net policies.

Grace McCormack main research interest is on the impact of various regulations in public insurance markets including public health exchanges and Medicaid.

Carolyn Stein researchers topics at the intersection of labor economics and the economics of science and innovation.

Anthony Yu research lies at the intersection of industrial organization, public economics, and health economics.