Research

Publications:

"Weight perception and weight management via information nudges" (with Lanjie Wang, Seonghoon Kim, and Kanghyock Koh), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 222 (2024): 332-353.

"Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic" (with Aljoscha Janssen), American Economic Review (2023), 113 (1): 1-33. (Lead Article)

"The Effects of Physician Retirement on Patient Outcomes: Anticipation and Disruption", Journal of Public Economics (2022)

"Short-term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption Spending and Its Underlying Mechanisms: Evidence from Singapore" (with Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh), Canadian Journal of Economics 55 (2022): 115-134.

"Public Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence from China" (with Huihua Nie), Journal of Development Economics (2021)

Wright, Brad, Xuan Zhang, Momotazur Rahman, and Keith Kocher. "Informing Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule Policy with an Analysis of Hospital-Based Long Observation Stays." Annals of Emergency Medicine 72, no. 2 (2018): 166-170.

Wright, Brad, Xuan Zhang, Momotazur Rahman, Mahshid Abir, Padmaja Ayyagari, and Keith E. Kocher. "Evidence of Racial and Geographic Disparities in the Use of Medicare Observation Stays and Subsequent Patient Outcomes Relative to Short-Stay Hospitalizations." Health Equity 2, no. 1 (2018): 45-54.

Schoenfeld, Andrew J., Xuan Zhang, David C. Grabowski, Vincent Mor, Joel S. Weissman, and Momotazur Rahman. "Hospital-skilled nursing facility referral linkage reduces readmission rates among Medicare patients receiving major surgery" Surgery 159, no. 5 (2016): 1461-1468.

Working Papers:

“Expanding Public Health Insurance to Parents: Effect on  Parents' and Children’s Well-being”  (with Michelle Marcus), AJHE R&R

"A New Testing Method for Justification Bias Using High-Frequency Data of Health and Employment" (with Jiayi Wen and Zixi Ye)

"The Motherhood Penalty on Health: Evidence from China" (with Ang Sun and Fang Xia). Draft available upon request.

Selected Work in Progress:

"Geographic Variation and Outcomes of China's Centralized Volume-Based Drug Procurement" (with Bin Jiang, Qingyuan Xue, and Yina Yin)

"Labor Supply and Well-being among Older Adults: The Separate Effects of Pension Access and Statutory Retirement Age" (with Joanne Tan)