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Wesley Yin
Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago 1155 E. 60th Street, Suite 170 Chicago, IL 60637 office 773-702-8194 wyin@uchicago.edu |
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| Curriculum Vitae | |||||||||||||||||||
Hi! I'm an assistant professor of economics at the Harris School of Public Policy. I'm currently on leave as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University. My research interests are in the areas of health, health care, microfinance, and insurance markets. In some of my current work, I'm studying the diffusion of efficient medical practices; the effect of demographic and technological change on the insurance market stability; the use of heuristics in insurance and credit markets; how insights from behavioral economics can help to mobilize savings; and how information and competitive forces impact the delivery of health care and other services. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Published and Forthcoming Papers
Market Incentives and Pharmaceutical Innovation, forthcoming Journal of Health Economics [Robust.do]: (Updated 3/1/07) Calculates quasi-ML standard errors for conditional fixed effect Poisson regressions The Effect of the Medicare Part D Prescription Benefit on Drug Utilization and Expenditures, (with Anirban Basu, James Zhang, Atonu Rabbani, David Meltzer, Caleb Alexander) Annals of Internal Medicine 148:3 pp. 169-177 Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006, 121(2). Winner of TIAA-CREF 2006 Paul Samuelson Award Certificate of Excellence Designing Targeting Schemes with Poverty Maps: Does Disaggregation Help?, (with Berk Özler, Chris Elbers, Tomoki Fujii, Peter Lanjouw), Journal of Development Economics, 83(1) May 2007 Deposit Collectors, (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, March 2006, 6(2), Article 5 |
Published Policy Papers
| Solutions and Challenges to Curing Global Health Inequality Innovations 2(4), Fall 2007: pp. 72-80 Testing Savings Product Innovations Using an Experimental Methodology, (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan), Asian Development Bank, Economics and Research Department Technical Paper No. 8. November, 2003 A Review of Commitment Savings Products in Developing Countries, (with Nava Ashraf, Nathalie Gons and Dean Karlan), Asian Development Bank, Economics and Research Department Working Paper No. 45 June, 2003 |
Working Papers R&D Policy, Agency Costs and Innovation in Personalized Medicine, mimeo, University of Chicago, under review Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines, March, 2008 (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan) under review Differential Uptake of the Part D Prescription Drug Benefit Based on Health and Generosity of Prescription Coverage, (with Atonu Rabbani, James Zhang, Caleb Alexander) under review Impact of the Medicare Part D prescription benefit on use of generic drugs and different therapeutic drug classes, (with James Zhang and Caleb Alexander) under review Identifying Inefficiency in the Diffusion of Medical Care Practices, mimeo, University of Chicago (with Tom Rees and Mitch Seltzer) |
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Teaching: Advanced Statistics (Core) | Economics of Innovation (Seminar) |
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