Assistant Professor
Boston University, Questrom School of Business

Faculty Research Fellow
National Bureau of Economic Research

Email: jetson@bu.edu

Bio

Jetson Leder-Luis is an assistant professor at Boston University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. His research addresses fraud in public programs, especially Medicare, as well as the consequences of fraud for public spending and patient health outcomes. His work has been published in academic journals such as The Journal of Political Economy and The American Economic Review and featured in popular media such as Bloomberg and The New Yorker. He received his Ph.D. from MIT Economics in 2020. 

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

Seminars & Conferences

I co-organize the Harvard-MIT-BU Health Economics Seminar, the Empirical Health Law Conference, and the Questrom Applied Economics Seminar. Please email me if you’d like to join the mailing lists for these seminars.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
with Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan McDevitt and Jimmy Roberts
Journal of Political Economy, 2025
NBER Working Paper #29491, November 2021

Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care
with Jon Gruber, David Howard and Theo Caputi
American Economic Review, 2025
NBER Working Paper #31035, March 2023

Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025
Media coverage: ProMarket, Mondaq, National Law Review

Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank Project in Kenya
with Jean Ensminger
World Development, 2025
NBER Working Paper #30768, December 2022

Maimonides Rule Redux
with Josh Angrist, Victor Lavy and Adi Shany
American Economic Review: Insights, 2019
NBER working paper 23486 
Online Appendix

Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses
with Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart, Dustin Tingley, Christopher Lucas, Shana Gadarian, Bethany Albertson and David Rand
American Journal of Political Science, 2014
Winner, Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology, 2014

Computer-Assisted Reading and Discovery for Student Generated Text in Massive Open Online Courses
with Justin Reich, Dustin Tingley, Molly Roberts, and Brandon Stewart
Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015

Working Papers

Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market
with Umang Khetan, Yunrong Zhou and Jialan Wang
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Policy
NBER Working Paper #32527, June 2024

Can Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence from Medicare Hospitalizations
with Leman Akoglu and Shubhranshu Shekhar
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
NBER Working Paper #30946, February 2023

The Economics of Health Care Fraud
with Anup Malani
NBER Working Paper #33592, March 2025

“Revolving Door Laws and Political Selection”
with Raymond Fisman, Catherine O’ Donnell and Silvia Vannutelli
NBER Working Paper #33626, March 2025

Government Audits
with Silvia Vannutelli and Martina Cuneo
NBER Working Paper #30975, February 2023

Works in Progress

“Competition and Fraud in Health Care”
with Jimmy Roberts, Ryan McDevitt, Paul Eliason, and Riley League

“Physician Regulation”
with Colleen Carey and Chloe Smith

“How the US Government Could Reduce Fraud in Its Spending Programs”
in preparation for the Journal of Economic Perspectives

“Unnecessary Hospital Admissions”
with David Howard

Other Writing

“Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud,” 2021
MarketWatch,  TheConversation
Quoted in: Wall Street Journal

Written Testimony for Pennsylvania House of Representatives State Government Committee
October, 2022

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

Interviews and Media Mentions

Washington Post mention about anti-fraud enforcement, June 2025

Discussed in The New Yorker article on DOGE, June 2025

Federal News Network Interview on anti-fraud policy, May 2025

MIT Technology Review Articles [here and here] on anti-fraud policy, February 2025

Visible Hand Podcast Episode with Jordi Blanes i Vidal on hospice fraud research, February 2025

Business Insider Article on Medicare fraud, December 2024

Bloomberg Odd Lots Podcast Episode with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, November 2024

Complex System Podcast Episode with Patrick McKenzie (patio11), October 2024

MIT News Article on hospice research, October 2024

Quoted in Wall Street Journal Op-Ed on infrastructure spending bill

Fraud in America YouTube Episode with Jeb White, 2021

You can view my disclosure statement here.