Publications:
"The Motherhood Penalty on Health: Evidence from China" (with Ang Sun and Fang Xia). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 238 (2025)
"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), Accepted by AJHE
"A New Testing Method for Justification Bias Using High-Frequency Data of Health and Employment" (with Jiayi Wen and Zixi Ye)
"Health Shocks and Uneven Recovery: The Role of Prevention and Insurance" (with Lanjie Wang). Draft available upon request.
Selected Work in Progress:
"The VIP Effect in Medicine: How Patients' Insider Knowledge, Social Ties, and Authority Shapes Clinical Decisions" (with Jiaowei Gong, Jia Xiang, and Chuanchuan Zhang)
"Assessing the Average Effects of China's Centralized Drug Procurement Program" (with Bin Jiang, Qingyuan Xue, Yina Yin, and Jiayu Zhang)
"Beyond the Lowest Bid: Heterogeneous Needs, Quality, and Supplier Reliability in Centralized Procurement" (with Bin Jiang, Qingyuan Xue, Yina Yin, and Jiayu Zhang)
"Unlocking the Hidden Pharmaceutical Financing: Resilient R&D Investment and Malleable Selling Expenses" (with Tianyuan Jiang, Xuan Tian, and Nina Yin)
"Branded-to-generic Drug Switching and Patient Health Outcomes" (with Mengyun Lin and Nina Yin)
"From Gray Income to Health Gains: The Impact of Anti-Corruption Inspections in Chinese Hospitals" (with Ruiqi Ding, Aljoscha Janssen, and Ya Sun)
"Labor Supply and Well-being among Older Adults: The Separate Effects of Pension Access and Statutory Retirement Age" (with Joanne Tan)