Selected Publications
- "Physician mergers involve 38% of doctors, substantial health system participation, and frequent serial acquisition," with Daniel Deibler, Daniel Hosken, and Marshall Thomas, Health Affairs Scholar, 2025.
- "Non-Price Effects of Mergers in Healthcare Markets," with Daniel Hosken, CPI Journal, 2024.
- "The consequences of firm scope and scale on patient access to healthcare," with Giacomo Meille, Brett Wendling, and Samuel Zuvekas, Health Services Research, 2024.
- "Price Effects of a Merger: Evidence from a Physicians' Market," with Shawn Ulrick, Economic Inqiury, 2021.
- "The Effects of Physician and Hospital Integration on Medicare Beneficiaries' Health Outcomes," with Nathan Wilson and Brett Wendling, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021.
- "Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Vaccination Take-up," with Ginger Zhe Jin, American Journal of Health Economics, 2021.
- "Physician market structure, patient outcomes, and spending: an examination of Medicare beneficiaries," with Brett Wendling and Nathan Wilson, Health Services Research, 2018.
- "How vertical integration affects the quantity and cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries," with Brett Wendling and Nathan Wilson, Journal of Health Economics, 2017.
- "Taking versus taxing: an analysis of conscription in a private information economy," with Javier Birchenall, Public Choice, 2016.
- "All internal in the family? Measuring spillovers from public health insurance," Journal of Human Resources, 2015.
- "'Gallantry in Action': Evidence of Advantageous Selection in a Voluntary Army," Journal of Law and Economics, 2015.
Selected Casework
Education
University of Texas at Austin
PhD Economics
University of Texas at Austin
MA Economics
University of Virginia
BA Economics and Foreign Affairs
Fields of Interest
- Health
- Labor
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Antitrust
- Petroleum
Professional Experience
Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2011-present
Lecturer
University of California, Santa Barbara
2007-2011