Dan Zeltzer
I am a tenured faculty member at the Tel Aviv University School of Economics, an IZA affiliate, and a CESifo network affiliate. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
My current research investigates the transformation in healthcare driven by advancements in digitization, new care models like urgent care centers and telemedicine, and innovative applications of predictive modeling and artificial intelligence. I'm also interested in networks in the context of healthcare, for example, as mediators of technology diffusion.
This year, I am on a sabbatical leave, serving as visiting faculty at Stanford.
Contact Information
Berglas School of Economics
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
dzeltzer@{tauex.tau.ac.il,stanford.edu}
Stanford University
107 Gunn Building
366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305
twitter.com/danzeltzer
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Recent and upcoming talks:
February 28, 2024. The University of Kansas
March 1 (discussant, Digital Economics and AI NBER Meeting)
March 8. Occasional Berkeley Health Econ Workshop
April 17. Princeton CHW
April 18. UPenn Health Policy/CHIBE Seminar
December 9-10. Italian Health Economics Association, Naples
by others:
May 3-4 (SOLE). Oren Danieli will present Negative Controls for IV Designs; Yuval Ofek-Shanny will present Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies
June 16-19 (ASHEcon). Yuci Zhou will present Urgent Care Center Entry, Local Healthcare Utilization, and Antibiotics Prescribing;
Nicholas Scott-Hearn will present Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions
Working Papers and Work In Progress
Negative Controls for Instrumental Variable Designs [new draft!] (joint with Oren Danieli, Daniel Nevo, Itai Walk, Bar Weinstein) slides
Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment (with Avner Strulov-Shlain and Yuval Ofek-Shani)
Urgent Care Center Entry, Local Healthcare Utilization, and Antibiotics Prescribing (joint with Janet Currie, Molly Schnell, and Yuci Zhou)
Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions (join with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Nicholas Scott-Hearn)
Strategic Effort and Congestion Reduction: Evidence from an Emergency Department Routing Reform (with Omer Dagan, Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot, and Ity Shurtz)
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability (joint with Yoav Goldstein and Ity Shurtz)
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01314.Digitally Enabled Asynchronous Remote Medical Management of Anxiety and Depression: a Cohort Study (joint with Amichai Perlman, Yishai Pickman, Michael Dreyfuss, Itai Manes, Peter Bak, Daniel Souroujon, Edo Paz, and Jon Ebbert)
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X241233788.The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine (joint with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Ran Balicer)
Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2024, 22 (2)
Coverage: The Economist, VoxEU, SIEPR blog, World Economic ForumDiagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Primary Care (joint with Lee Herzog, Yishai Pickman, Yael Steuerman, Ran Ilan Ber, Zehavi Kugler, Ran Shaul, and Jon Ebbert).
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, 1 (4), December 2023, Pages 480-489.
Coverage: ForbesAdoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine (joint with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi, and Ran Balicer).
Journal of Health Economics, 90, July 2023, Article No. 102780
link to article code
Coverage: The Jerusalem PostDo Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending? (joint with Janet Currie and Anastasia Karpova)
Journal of Health Economics, 89, May 2023, Article No. 102753
The NIHCM Foundation 2024 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health, Brookings Institute Hutchins Roundup, TradeoffsWhy is End-of-Life Spending So High? Evidence from Cancer Patients (joint with Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Tzvi Shir, Salomon Stemmer, and Ran Balicer),
Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (3), May 2023, 511–527
online appendix codeDrug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments (joint with Lelia Agha)
AEJ: Economic Policy, 14 (2), May 2022
The NIHCM Foundation 2023 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: VoxEU
Horizon Effects and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets (joint with Olivier Darmouni)
Canadian Journal of Economics, 55 (2), May 2022, 800–827Sex Differences in the Pattern of Patient Referrals to Male and Female Surgeons (joint with Fahima Dossa, Rinku Sutradhar, Andrea N. Simpson, Nancy N. Baxter)
JAMA Surgery, 157 (2), October 2021, 95–103
Coverage: USNewsCharacteristics of Private Equity–Owned Hospitals in 2018 (with Joseph Bruch and Zirui Song)
Annals of Internal Medicine, 174 (2), February 2021, 277–279
Cited by MEDPAC report to the U.S. Congress.
Supply-Side Variation in the Use of Emergency Departments (joint with Liran Einav, Avichai Chasid, and Ran Balicer)
Journal of Health Economics, 78, July 2021, Article No. 102453Rising opioid prescription fulfillment among non-cancer and non-elderly patients—Israel’s alarming example (with Oren Miron, Tzvi Shir, Ran Balicer, Liran Einav, and Becca Feldman)
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 46, May 2021, 455–456Can Targeting High-Risk Patients Reduce Readmission Rates? Evidence from Israel (joint with Efrat Shadmi, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Ran Balicer)
Journal of Applied Economics, 23 (1), November 2020, 729–745Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
AEJ: Applied Economics, 12 (2), April 2020, 169–197
AEA Journals Chart of the WeekPrediction Accuracy with Electronic Medical Recor ds versus Administrative Claims Data (joint with Ran Balicer, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Efrat Shadmi)
Medical Care, 57 (7), July 2019, 551–559