Assistant Professor
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.”
Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics
Media coverage: ProMarket, Mondaq, National Law Review
“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.
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Medicare Fraud Detection
with Leman Akoglu and Shubhranshu Shekhar
“Detecting Fraud in Development Aid”
with Jean Ensminger
NBER Working Paper #30768, December 2022
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 be Audited?”
with Silvia Vannutelli and Martina Cuneo
“Auctions as Antifraud: Lessons from Durable Medical Equipment”
with Jimmy Roberts, Ryan McDevitt, Paul Eliason, and Riley League
“Understanding Medicare Fraud”
with Anup Malani
“Measuring Return on Investment to Healthcare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Enforcement”
with Cori Andriola and Gabriela Gracia
White Paper, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Publications:
Economics
Maimonides Rule Redux
with Josh Angrist, Victor Lavy and Adi Shany
American Economic Review: Insights, 2019,
NBER working paper 23486
Online Appendix
Political Economy
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
Machine Learning
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
Other Writing
Written Testimony for Pennsylvania House of Representatives State Government Committee
October, 2022
“Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud,” (2021)
MarketWatch, TheConversation
Quoted in: Wall Street Journal
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