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
White Papers
Prioritizing Prevention: Value-for-Money in Anti-Fraud Efforts
Program Integrity Alliance White Paper, 2025
Measuring the Value of Healthcare Anti-Fraud Efforts
with Cori Andriola and Gabriela Gracia
CMS Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership White Paper, 2024
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.