Working Papers
When Uber Comes to Town: Spatial Frictions and Health Care Access [Link]
American Society of Health Economists Program Chair Award 2025
Managing Drug Use Through Administrative Burden: Evidence from Medicaid (with Abby Alpert) [Link]
Taxing Prescription Drugs: Evidence from New York Opioid Tax (with Jackson Reimer) [Preliminary draft available upon request]
Selected Work-in-Progress
Price, Access, and Quality under Centralized Procurement: Evidence from China’s National Stent Procurement (with Hanming Fang, Gordon Liu, Huyang Zhang, Karen Zhang)
American Society of Health Economists Program Chair Award 2026
Publications
Trends in Reporting and Representation in US Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials, 1997-2023. (with Zhuoer Lin, Joseph Ross, Kien Lau, Sophia Stumpf and Xi Chen) JAMA Network Open, 9 (3), 2026 [Link] [Invited Commentary]
Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness: Evidence from Administrative Data (with Tianyu Wang, Xi Chen and Jody Sindelar.) Economics & Human Biology, 53, 101367, 2023. [Link] [IZA No. 16545] [Media coverage: Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale Center Beijing (in Chinese)]
Small Money, Big Change: The Distributional Impact of Differentiated Doctor Visit Fee on Primary Care Utilization (with Tianyu Wang, Ke Wen and Qiuming Gao) Social Science & Medicine, 339 (2023) 116355, 2023. [Link]
Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? –Evidence from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (with Yanran Chen, Xuezheng Qin and Xi Chen), Environment and Development Economics, 28(5), 486–510, 2023. [Link] [IZA No. 16092]
Economic Implications of Chinese Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Payment Systems for Critically Ill Patients in ICUs (with Zhaolin Meng, Yanan Ma, Suhang Song, Ye Li, Dan Wang, Yafei Si, Ruochen Zhang, Hao Xue, Limei Jing and Huazhang Wu). Critical Care Medicine, 48(7):e565-e573, 2020 [Link]