Ken Suzuki

Job Market Paper

"Tele-Triage, Care Substitution, and Health: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Nurses" (with Liam Rose, Linda Diem Tran, and Anita Vashi)

Patients experiencing acute health symptoms often face uncertainty about how and where to receive care. We study patients who call a nurse advice line and receive one of four recommendations: emergency department (ED), urgent care (UC), primary care (PC), or self-care (Home). Leveraging an extension of examiner designs that recovers margin-specific effects for each pair of adjacent recommendations (ED-UC, UC-PC, PC-Home), we estimate the impact of nurse recommendations on both patient decisions and their subsequent health outcomes. We find that recommendations have large impacts on patient decisions at each margin. However, we find no evidence that recommending more acute care over less acute care results in survival gain. We further show that UC recommendations reduce costs relative to ED and PC recommendations by $404 and $247, respectively.

Publication

[2018] "Effective or Self-Selective: Random Assignment Demonstrates Short-Term Study Abroad Effectively Encourages Further Study Abroad" (with Maki Kato)

 Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(4), 411-428.

[2019] "Globalization, Structural Transformation, and the Labor Income Share" (with Yoko Oishi and Saumik Paul)

In: Fields, G., Paul, S. (eds) Labor Income Share in Asia. ADB Institute Series on Development Economics. Springer, Singapore.

Working Paper

[2019] "An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Syrian Refugees on the Turkish Labor Market" (with Saumik Paul, Takeshi Maru, and Motoi Kusadokoro)

 ADBI Working Paper 935, March 2019.

Selected Work in Progress

“School Entry Age, Class Size, and Student Achievements in Mexico” (Joint with Carlos Dobkin, Pablo A. Peña, and Brenda Samaniego de la Parra)

“Annual Wellness Visit, Influenza Vaccine Take-Up, and Winter Illness of Medicare Enrollees”