I am an Assistant Professor at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research. I am also affiliated with the US Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health. Previously, I was on the faculty at McMaster University and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University. I received my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2020 and my BSc from UBC.

My research fields span health economics and public finance. I study the impacts of physician behavior, health policies, and safety net programs on well-being. Thematically, I am particularly interested in the areas of mental health and substance use.

Working Papers
Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare (with Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Frank Schilbach). November 2024, Conditionally Accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Invisible Wounds: How Mental Disability Benefits Shape Veteran Well-Being (with David Silver), November 2024, Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants by Refugee Status: An Analysis of Linked Landing Files and Tax Records (with Wifag Adnan and Angela Zheng), March 2024, Revisions Requested, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries, Boustan, Jensen, Abramitzky et al. 2025 (38 author collaboration), February 2025.

Publications and Forthcoming
Economics:
Can Educational Outreach Improve Experts’ Decision Making? Evidence from a National Opioid Academic Detailing Program, Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.

Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis Across Multiple Programs (with Derek Wu), National Tax Journal, 2025.

Socioeconomic Status and Access to Mental Health Care: The Case of Psychiatric Medications for Children in Ontario Canada, Journal of Health Economics, 2024 (with Janet Currie and Paul Kurdyak)

Doing More with Less: Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025 (with Janet Currie) (Accepted 2022)

Primary Care Providers’ Influence on Opioid Use and Its Adverse Consequences, Journal of Public Economics, 2023 (with Sarah Eichmeyer)

Pathways into Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Practice Variation in Emergency Departments, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022 (with Sarah Eichmeyer)

Hospital Avoidance and Unintended Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic, American Journal of Health Economics, 2021

Consolidation of Primary Care Physicians and Its Impact on Healthcare Utilization, Health Economics, 2021 (with Yiwei Chen, Liran Einav, Jonathan Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya)

What to Expect When You Are Expecting: Are Health Care Consumers Forward-Looking?, Journal of Health Economics, 2019 (with Audrey Guo)


Health Policy:
High-Risk Emergency Department Visits as a Near-Term Predictor of All-Cause Mortality, Suicide, and Fatal Overdose among U.S. Military Veterans, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025 (with Mathew V. Kiang, Holly Elser, and Keith Humphreys)

Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics and Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic, JAMA Network Open, 2021 (with Janet Currie, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt)

Trends in Overdose Mortality in Ohio During the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic, JAMA Network Open, 2021 (with Janet Currie, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt)

Mental Health Treatment and the Role of Tele-Mental Health at the Veterans Health Administration During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Psychological Services, 2021 (with Matt Boden and Jodie Trafton)