 | Wesley Yin Assistant Professor Department of Economics Boston University 270 Bay State Road #501 Boston, MA 02215 office 617-353-6150 wyin@bu.edu | |
| Curriculum Vitae | |||||||||||||||||||
Welcome! I'm an assistant professor in the Economics Department at Boston University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prior to coming to Boston University, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University, and was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. My research interests are in the areas of health, economic development, industrial organizations and public finance. My current research studies the relationship between economic growth and the formation of private markets; and how information, income, and competitive forces impact the delivery of health care in developed and developing countries. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Published and Forthcoming Papers
R&D Policy, Agency Costs and Innovation in Personalized Medicine, Journal of Health Economics, September 2009, 28(5), pp. 950-962 Market Incentives and Pharmaceutical Innovation, Journal of Health Economics, July 2008, 27(4), pp. 1060-1077 [Robust.do]: (Updated 3/1/07) Calculates quasi-ML standard errors for conditional fixed effect Poisson regressions The impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid Dual-eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures (with Caleb Alexander and Anirban Basu), Health Services Research, February 2010, 45(1), pp. 133-151 Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan) World Development, 2010, 38(3), pages 333-344 Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006, 121(2). Winner of TIAA-CREF 2006 Certificate of Excellence Designing Targeting Schemes with Poverty Maps: Does Disaggregation Help? (with Berk Özler, Chris Elbers, Tomoki Fujii, Peter Lanjouw), Journal of Development Economics, May 2007, 83(1) Deposit Collectors (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, March 2006, 6(2), Article 5 | Working Papers and Papers in Progress Insurers' Negotiating Leverage and the External Effect of Medicare Part D (with Darius Lakdawalla) updated May, 2012 (an earlier version appears as NBER working paper no. 16251) Competition, Growth and Drug Quality in Indian Retail Pharmacy Markets (with Dan Bennett) Anti-counterfeit Technology and Retail Drug Quality in Nigeria (with Seema Jayachandran and Dan Bennett) Behavioral Response to Medical Innovation (with Darius Lakdawalla and Robert Kaestner) | Published Policy and Medical Journal Articles
| Valuing health technologies at NICE: Recommendations for Improved Incorporation of Treatment Value in HTA (with Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson) Health Economics October 2010, 10(11) pp. 1109-1116 The Effect of the Medicare Part D Prescription Benefit on Drug Utilization and Expenditures (with Anirban Basu, James Zhang, Atonu Rabbani, David Meltzer, Caleb Alexander) Annals of Internal Medicine, Lead article, February 2008, 148:3 pp. 169-177 Solutions and Challenges to Curing Global Health Inequality Innovations 2(4), October 2007, 2(4), pp. 72-80 Impact of the Medicare Part D prescription benefit on use of generic drugs and different therapeutic drug classes (with James Zhang and Caleb Alexander) The Journal of General Internal Medicine, October 2008, 23:10 pp. 1673-1678 Testing Savings Product Innovations Using an Experimental Methodology (with Nava Ashraf and Dean Karlan), Asian Development Bank, Economics and Research Department Technical Paper No. 8. November, 2003 A Review of Commitment Savings Products in Developing Countries (with Nava Ashraf, Nathalie Gons and Dean Karlan), Asian Development Bank, Economics and Research Department Working Paper No. 45 June, 2003 | | | | | Teaching: Topics in Development Economics (Second year PhD course)(EC722) | Statistics for Economists (MA and MPP core)(EC507) Economic Statistics (Undergraduate core)(EC305) Economics of Innovation (MPP and MBA elective) | | | | | | | | |