I study IO and market design, with a primary focus on the health industry. I like thinking about the interaction between market power and market design, and how we can better design markets to account for real-world frictions.  

Working Papers

Formal and Real Organ Allocation (with Yingni Guo)

Draft coming soon

Defining Markets Flexibly Across Space: An Application to Physician Shortages (with Yuci Zhou)

Under review; Latest draft

Contemporary Patterns in Out-of-Sequence Liver Allocation (with Jaqueline Henson, Ryan C. McDevitt, Norine Chan, Andrew S. Barbas, Lindsay Y. King, Andrew J. Muir, Debra L. Sudan, Stuart J. Knechtle, and Lisa M. McElory)

Forthcoming; American Journal of Transplantation

Publications

Financial Ties, Market Structure, Commercial Prices, and Medical Director Compensation in Dialysis. JAMA Health Forum 2025 (with Wanrong Deng,  Paul J. Eliason, Riley J. League, Ryan C. McDevitt, James W. Roberts, and Heather Wong)

2025 ASHEcon Program Chair Award: Competition in Health Care Markets

Coverage: CBS News (article, TV, a message my coauthor's mom got from her friend), Managed Healthcare Executive, Healio, Physician's Weekly

Trends in Medical Debt During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum 2022 (with Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin)

Coverage: Chicago Booth Review

Other Works

Bounds on the Ricci curvature and solutions to the Einstein equations for weighted graphs. arXiv 2020 (with An Huang, Bogdan Stoica, and Xiao Zhong; mathematical physics)

Miscellany

For Stata and Beyond: A Pretty Harmless Guide to Doing Research with Stata (prepared for my Ph.D. Stata course at Duke)

Health Data Summary (prepared for the Duke IO group)