Xuan Zhang

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Health Economics
• Labour Economics
• Applied Microeconomics

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Brown University (2013 — 2019)
• Bachelor's degree Renmin University of China (2009 — 2013)
• Exchange Student University of California, Davis (2012 — 2012)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Economics Singapore Management University (2019)
• Research Assistant Brown University (2014 — 2018)
• Instructor Brown University (2016 — 2016)
• Teaching Assistant Brown University (2014 — 2014)
• Intern Development and Reform Commission of Jinan High-tech Zone (2013 — 2013)

Publications:

"Disruption in Primary Care and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Physician Retirement", Journal of Public Economics (2022)

"Short-term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption Spending and Its Underlying Mechanisms: Evidence from Singapore" (with Seonghoon Kim and Kanghyock Koh), Canadian Journal of Economics (2021)

"Public Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence from China" (with Huihua Nie), Journal of Development Economics (2021)

Wright, Brad, Xuan Zhang, Momotazur Rahman, and Keith Kocher. "Informing Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule Policy with an Analysis of Hospital-Based Long Observation Stays." Annals of emergency medicine 72, no. 2 (2018): 166-170.

Wright, Brad, Xuan Zhang, Momotazur Rahman, Mahshid Abir, Padmaja Ayyagari, and Keith E. Kocher. "Evidence of Racial and Geographic Disparities in the Use of Medicare Observation Stays and Subsequent Patient Outcomes Relative to Short-Stay Hospitalizations." Health equity 2, no. 1 (2018): 45-54.

Schoenfeld, Andrew J., Xuan Zhang, David C. Grabowski, Vincent Mor, Joel S. Weissman, and Momotazur Rahman. "Hospital-skilled nursing facility referral linkage reduces readmission rates among Medicare patients receiving major surgery" Surgery 159, no. 5 (2016): 1461-1468.

Working Papers:

"Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic" (with Aljoscha Janssen), Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review

Selected Work in Progress:

“Expanding Health Insurance to Parents: Effect on Children’s Well-being” (with Michelle Marcus)

"Double Penalty of Motherhood: The Life Cycle Evidence on Maternal Health and Labor Supply" (with Xu Jiang and Ang Sun)

"Labor Supply and Well-being among Seniors: Evidence from Singapore" (with Joanne Tan)