Jetson Leder-Luis

Jetson Leder-Luis is a TPRI Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law at Boston University Questrom School of Business.  His research examines 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.  He also studies the detection and deterrence of fraud and corruption, as well as the statistical properties of misreported data.

Jetson received a PhD in economics from MIT in 2020, where his advisors were Jim Poterba and Ben Olken.  He received his BS in applied and computational mathematics and economics from Caltech in 2014.