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Seth Richards-Shubik
Associate Professor
Economics
Seth Richards-Shubik, Ph.D holds the Charles McGee Professorship
Office: RBC 465
ser315@lehigh.edu
610-758-6243
Courses Taught
- Statistical Methods
- Public Economics
- Applied Econometrics (Ph.D.)
Professor Richards-Shubik joined the Department of Economics in 2015, after five years at Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III College. Originally from the Syracuse, NY area, Professor Richards-Shubik obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on the estimation of network models in health care and other applications, as well as the study of health inequality. Professor Richards-Shubik is currently Director of the M.S. Program in Applied Economics. He will be on sabbatical in 2022-23.
Education
- Harvard University, B.A.
- Maxwell School of Syracuse University, M.P.A
- University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Health Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Network Models
Recent Publications
- Richards-Shubik, Seth, Mark S. Roberts, and Julie M. Donohue. 2022. “Measuring Quality Effects in Equilibrium.” Journal of Health Economics, 83: #106216.
- Anderson, Katharine A., and Seth Richards-Shubik. 2021. "Collaborative Production in Science: An Empirical Analysis of Coauthorships in Economics." The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- Richards-Shubik, Seth. 2020. "Application and Computation of a Flexible Class of Network Formation Models." In The Econometrics of Networks (Advances in Econometrics, vol. 42), edited by Áureo de Paula, Elie Tamer, and Marcel-Cristian Voia, 111-142.
- de Paula, Áureo, Seth Richards-Shubik, and Elie Tamer. 2018. "Identifying Preferences in Networks with Bounded Degree." Econometrica, 86(1): 263-288.
- Donohue, Julie M., Hasan Guclu, Walid F. Gellad, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Haiden A. Huskamp, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Ruoxin Zhang, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic, Stefanie P. Junker, Timothy Anderson, and Seth Richards-Shubik. 2018. "Influence of Peer Networks on Physician Adoption of New Drugs." PLoS ONE, 13(10): e0204826.
- Chung, Andrea P., Martin Gaynor, and Seth Richards-Shubik. 2017. "Subsidies and Structure: The Lasting Impact of the Hill-Burton Program on the Hospital Industry." The Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(5): 926-943.
- Cuellar, Alison, Amelia M. Haviland, Seth Richards-Shubik, Anthony T. LoSasso, Alicia Atwood, Hilary Wolfendale, Mona Shah, and Kevin Volpp. 2017. "Boosting Workplace Wellness Programs with Financial Incentives." American Journal of Managed Care, 23(10): 294-300.
- Goldring, Thomas, Fabian Lange, and Seth Richards-Shubik. 2016. "Testing for Changes in the SES-Mortality Gradient When the Distribution of Education Changes Too." Journal of Health Economics, 46(March): 120-130.
- Lo-Ciganic, Wei-Hsuan, Walid F. Gellad, Haiden A. Huskamp, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Ruoxin Zhang, Bobby L. Jones, Hasan Guclu, Seth Richards-Shubik, and Julie M. Donohue. 2016. "Who Were the Early Adopters of Dabigatran? An Application of Group-Based Trajectory Models." Medical Care, 54(7): 725-732.