Dan Zeltzer
I am a tenured faculty member at the Tel Aviv University School of Economics, an IZA affiliate, and a CESifo network affiliate. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
I am currently on leave, serving as visiting faculty at Stanford.
My research investigates the transformation in healthcare driven by advancements in digitization, new care models like urgent care centers and telemedicine, and innovative applications of predictive modeling and artificial intelligence. I'm also interested in networks in the context of healthcare, for example, as mediators of technology diffusion.
Contact Information
Berglas School of Economics
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
dzeltzer@{tauex.tau.ac.il,stanford.edu}
Stanford University
107 Gunn Building
366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305
twitter.com/danzeltzer
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Recent and upcoming talks:
March 8. Occasional Berkeley Health Econ Workshop
April 17. Princeton CHW
April 18. UPenn Health Policy/CHIBE Seminar
April 23. IHEA Digital Health Tech SIG (Webinar)
May 8. Trinidad and Tobago NCRHA Public Health (Webinar)
July 10. Cedars-Sinai Division of Informatics (Webinar)
December 9-10. Italian Health Economics Association, Naples
By coauthors:
May 3-4 (SOLE). Oren Danieli will present Negative Controls for IV Designs;
Yuval Ofek-Shanny will present Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies.June 16-19 (ASHEcon). Yuci Zhou will present Urgent Care Center Entry, Local Healthcare Utilization, and Antibiotics Prescribing;
Nicholas Scott-Hearn will present Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions.
Working Papers and Work In Progress
Negative Controls for Instrumental Variable Designs
with Oren Danieli, Daniel Nevo, Itai Walk, Bar Weinstein
[new draft!]Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment,
with Avner Strulov-Shlain and Yuval Ofek-ShaniUrgent Care Center Entry, Local Healthcare Utilization, and Antibiotics Prescribing
with Janet Currie, Molly Schnell, and Yuci ZhouIntergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Nicholas Scott-HearnStrategic Effort and Congestion Reduction: Evidence from an Emergency Department Routing Reform
with Omer Dagan, Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot, and Ity Shurtz
Published and Forthcoming Papers
titles link to public full-text when available
titles link to public full-text when available
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
with Yoav Goldstein and Ity Shurtz
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcomingDigitally Enabled Asynchronous Remote Medical Management of Anxiety and Depression: a Cohort Study
with Amichai Perlman, Yishai Pickman, Michael Dreyfuss, Itai Manes, Peter Bak, Daniel Souroujon, Edo Paz, and Jon Ebbert
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, forthcomingThe Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Ran Balicer
Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2024, 22 (2), 712–750.
Coverage: The Economist, VoxEU, SIEPR blog, World Economic ForumDiagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Primary Care
with Lee Herzog, Yishai Pickman, Yael Steuerman, Ran Ilan Ber, Zehavi Kugler, Ran Shaul, and Jon Ebbert
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, 1 (4), December 2023, 480–489
Coverage: ForbesAdoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine,
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Health Economics, 90, July 2023, Article No. 102780
code Coverage: The Jerusalem PostDo Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending?
with Janet Currie and Anastasia Karpova
Journal of Health Economics, 89, May 2023, Article No. 102753
The NIHCM Foundation 2024 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health, Brookings Institute Hutchins Roundup, TradeoffsWhy is End-of-Life Spending So High? Evidence from Cancer Patients
with Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Tzvi Shir, Salomon Stemmer, and Ran Balicer
Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (3), May 2023, 511–527
codeDrug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments
with Lelia Agha
AEJ: Economic Policy (lead article), 14 (2), May 2022
The NIHCM Foundation 2023 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: VoxEUHorizon Effects and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets
with Olivier Darmouni
Canadian Journal of Economics, 55 (2), May 2022, 800–827Sex Differences in the Pattern of Patient Referrals to Male and Female Surgeons
with Fahima Dossa, Rinku Sutradhar, Andrea N. Simpson, Nancy N. Baxter
JAMA Surgery, 157 (2), October 2021, 95–103
Coverage: USNewsCharacteristics of Private Equity–Owned Hospitals in 2018
with Joseph Bruch and Zirui Song
Annals of Internal Medicine, 174 (2), February 2021, 277–279
Cited by MEDPAC report to the U.S. Congress.Supply-Side Variation in the Use of Emergency Departments
with Liran Einav, Avichai Chasid, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Health Economics, 78, July 2021, Article No. 102453Rising Opioid Prescription Fulfillment Among Non-Cancer and Non-Elderly Patients—Israel’s Alarming Example
with Oren Miron, Tzvi Shir, Ran Balicer, Liran Einav, and Becca Feldman
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 46, May 2021, 455–456Can Targeting High-Risk Patients Reduce Readmission Rates? Evidence from Israel
with Efrat Shadmi, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Applied Economics, 23 (1), November 2020, 729–745Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap
AEJ: Applied Economics, 12 (2), April 2020, 169–197
Coverage: AEA Journals Chart of the WeekPrediction Accuracy with Electronic Medical Records versus Administrative Claims Data,
with Ran Balicer, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Efrat Shadmi
Medical Care, 57 (7), July 2019, 551–559