Dean Li
Hello! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in economics at MIT. I study the supply side of healthcare — the workers and institutions that shape healthcare delivery — combining careful empirical work with structural techniques from labor economics and industrial organization.
My job market paper studies how technological fragmentation in electronic health record systems creates differentiation across hospitals and reshapes labor market competition for nurses. Other projects study the drivers of the opioid epidemic, the role of privacy regulation in firm data decisions, the spatial distribution of physicians, and the implications of healthcare employment growth for the U.S. labor market.
My research has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded through NIH-T32, and the George and Obie Shultz Fund.
You can reach me at deanli@mit.edu.