Faculty
Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He studies public economics in the areas of healthcare and child welfare. His healthcare research investigates sources of value and waste in the U.S. healthcare system to inform policies that improve both quality and cost-effectiveness. He conducts similar investigations into foster care and juvenile justice policies and practices that can improve child and family wellbeing.
Doyle partners with major healthcare providers, payers—including large employers—and child welfare agencies to conduct randomized controlled trials that test the effectiveness of program redesigns. He is CoDirector of the MIT Sloan Initiative for Health Systems Innovation, CoChair of the Health Sector of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and CoPrincipal Investigator of the NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health.
He earned a BS from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Featured Publication
"Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use."Doyle, Joseph J., Marcella Alsan, Nicholas Skelley, Yutong Lu, and John Cawley. JAMA Internal Medicine Vol. 184, No. 2 (2023): 154-163.
Featured Publication
"Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns."Doyle, Joseph J., John A. Graves, and Jonathan Gruber. Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 101, No. 5 (2019): 841-852. Download Paper. Appendix. Press. Working Paper Version.
Cooper, Ryan, Joseph J. Doyle, and Andrés P. Hojman. American Economic Review. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 30974.
Alsan, Marcella, John Cawley, Joseph J. Doyle, and Nicholas Skelley. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. Forthcoming.
Doyle, Joseph J. and Becky Staiger. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 29613.
Baron, Jason E., Joseph J. Doyle, Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull, and Joseph Ryan. In Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, edited by Lawrence F. Katz, Mark Loewenstein, and Randall Akee, University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.
As Ron Williams, SF ’84, explained to MIT Sloan students at the iLead Speaker Series in April, Aetna's successful turnaround was the result of a tremendous team effort.
The study is the first randomized evaluation of the impact of Clinical Decision Support
"If I had to choose, I'd definitely be choosing to go to a teaching hospital."
"Using information from a patient's medical record ... machine learning algorithms can substantially improve diagnostic testing."
Could a healthy diet actually improve diabetes in a patient? A new 'Food as Medicine' program by professor Joseph Doyle attempts an answer.
An intensive food-as-medicine program showed no improvement in glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes and food insecurity: MIT Sloan.
