Assistant Professor
Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law
Boston University, Questrom School of Business
Faculty Research Fellow
National Bureau of Economic Research
Email: jetson@bu.edu
CV
You can view my CV here and my Google Scholar profile here.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, MIT 2020. Advisors: Jim Poterba and Ben Olken.
B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics and Economics, Caltech 2014
Bio
I am an economist studying public economics, health economics and political economy. My research addresses fraud, misreporting and overbilling in public expenditures, particularly in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the consequences of these behaviors for public spending and patient health outcomes. I am also interested in the detection and deterrence of fraud and corruption, as well as the statistical properties of misreported data.
I am an alumnus of MIT, Caltech, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Stamps Scholars program, The Masters School, and REACH Prep.
Working Papers
“Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare.” Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics. Media coverage: ProMarket, Mondaq, National Law Review
“Detecting Fraud in Development Aid” (with Jean Ensminger).
“Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud” (with Jimmy Roberts, Ryan McDevitt, Paul Eliason, and Riley League), NBER Working Paper #29491, November 2021.
Works in Progress
“Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care” (with Jon Gruber, David Howard and Theo Caputi)
“When Should Governments Audit?” (with Silvia Vannutelli and Martina Cuneo)
“Auctions as Antifraud” (with Jimmy Roberts, Ryan McDevitt, Paul Eliason, and Riley League)
“Detecting & Analyzing Anomalies in Massive Medicare Claims Data” (with Leman Akoglu and Shubhranshu Shekhar)
Publications
Angrist, J., Lavy, V., Leder-Luis, J., Shany, A. (2019). “Maimonides Rule Redux“, American Economic Review: Insights, 1 (3), 309-324.
Originally released NBER working paper 23486
Online Appendix
Reich, J., Tingley, D., Leder-Luis, J., Roberts, M., Stewart, B. (2015). “Computer-Assisted Reading and Discovery for Student Generated Text in Massive Open Online Courses“, Journal of Learning Analytics, 2 (1), 156-184
Roberts, M., Stewart, B., Tingley, D., Lucas, C., Leder-Luis, J., Gadarian, S., Albertson, B., Rand, D. (2014). “Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses“, American Journal of Political Science, 58 (4), 1064-1082
Other Writing
“Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud,” (2021)
MarketWatch, TheConversation
Contributing Author, Global Anticorruption Blog, Harvard Law School, 2017-2019.
Highlights:
- Rewarding Whistleblowing to Fight Kleptocracy, June 2018
- The Guiding Principle for Anticorruption Policy Should Be Cost-Effectiveness, Not “Zero Tolerance”, September 2018
- Hiding in Plain Sight: How the Federal Elections Commission Can Use Existing Disclosures To Detect Campaign Finance Fraud, October 2018
- Full author profile here