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Academic Groups

Applied Economics

Academic Area

Economics, Finance and Accounting

Centers & Initiatives

MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative

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 to inform policies aimed at improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of the US healthcare system. This includes partnering with large healthcare providers and payers to conduct randomized controlled trials of changes in the ways healthcare is delivered with an emphasis on addressing social determinants of health. He conducts similar investigations into foster care and juvenile justice programs.

Doyle is codirector of the MIT Sloan Initiative for Health Systems Innovation and cochair of the Health Sector of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

He holds a BS from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Publications

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Featured Publication

"Economics of Child Protection: Maltreatment, Foster Care & Intimate-Partner Violence."

Doyle, Joseph J. and Anna Aizer. Annual Review of Economics Vol. 10, (2018): 87-108. Download paper.

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.

"Health Care Hotspotting – A Randomized, Controlled Trial."

Finkelstein, Amy, Annetta Zhou, Sarah Taubman, and Joseph J. Doyle. New England Journal of Medicine No. 381 (2020): 151-162.

"Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida."

Breining, Sanni, Joseph J. Doyle, David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbowkik, and Jeffrey Roth. Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 38, No. 1 (2020): 95-142. Download Paper. Press.

"Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability."

Doyle, Joseph J., Working Paper. 2019.

"Clinical Decision Support for High-Cost Imaging: A Randomized Clinical Trial."

Doyle, Joseph J., Sarah Abraham, Laura Feeney, Sarah Reimer, and Amy Finkelstein. PLOS ONE Vol. 14, No. 3 (2019): 1-13.

Recent Insights

Press

Software may hold key to guiding providers toward better healthcare

The study is the first randomized evaluation of the impact of Clinical Decision Support

Apr 11, 2019

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Ideas Made to Matter

Using data to triage health care waste

An economic analytics of health care experiments could save money.

Oct 31, 2018

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Media Highlights

Press Source: Project Syndicate (Opinion Piece)

Closing the COVID trust deficit

"Economists have developed an emerging body of evidence that...may also help to improve delivery and increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.”

Feb 15, 2021

Faculty: Joseph Doyle

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Press Source: The New York Times Magazine

How an ill-fated fishing voyage helped us understand COVID-19

“Sometimes if you need answers, you go with natural experiments that aren't potentially as super clean, but we can learn from them.”

Oct 20, 2020

Faculty: Joseph Doyle

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Press Source: BloombergQuint

The health-care breakthrough that wasn't

Jan 9, 2020

Faculty: Joseph Doyle

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Press Source: Health Data Management (Opinion Piece)

How digital health tools can help transform healthcare

Jul 30, 2019

Faculty: Joseph Doyle

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