Job Market Paper

  • How Do Managed Care Plans Reduce Healthcare Costs?

Publications

  • "Provider Practice Style and Patient Health Outcomes: The Case of Heart Attacks" (with Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod), The Journal of Health Economics, 47: pp. 64-80
  • "Noncognitive Skills and the Gender Disparities in Test Scores and Teacher Assessments: Evidence from Primary School" (with Chris Cornwell and David Mustard), The Journal of Human Resources, 48(1): pp. 238-266
  • "The New SAT and Academic Performance at a Flagship Public University" (with Chris Cornwell and David Mustard), SAT Wars, chapter 8. Ed: Joseph Soares. New York: Teachers College Press, 127-136.

Working Papers

  • What Makes An Efficient Physician? Evidence from Florida Emergency Room Visits
  • How Do Physicians Respond to Malpractice Claims?
  • All Politics is Local? Evidence from Foreclosures and Political Participation
  • Group Identity Bias and Information Cascades (with Elliott Ash)

Jessica Van Parys
Ph.D. Graduate (2015)
Department of Economics
1022 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York City, NY 10027

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