In response to rising health spending, public and private insurers use two mechanisms to direct spending toward more valuable treatments: “demand-side” incentives, which impose costs on the patient to limit moral hazard, and “supply-side” incentives, which adjust the physician’s compensation to discourage spending. Using variation in patients’ and physicians’ exposure to incentives, I identify ...

Centralized matching markets are designed assuming that participants make wellinformed choices upfront. However, this project uses data from NYC’s school choice system to show that families’ choices change after the initial match as they learn about schools. I develop an empirical model of evolving demand for schools under learning, endowment effects in response to prior assignments, and switch...

Electricity authorities need capacity assessment and expansion plans for efficiently charging the growing Electric vehicle (EV) fleet. Specifically, distribution grid needs significant as it faces most impact to accommodate high variant residential EV load. Utility companies employ different scheduling policies maintenance of their transformers (hereinafter, XFR). However, they lack scenario-ba...

Copper is a critical mineral resource and plays crucial role in social economic development. In China, the world’s largest copper consumer, footprints embodied transfers among sectors have not been studied sufficiently. Combing an environmentally extended input-output model complex network method, this paper systematically analyzes China’s consumption final demand production process. The resear...