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 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. In his child welfare research, he typically uses large-scale administrative datasets and either randomized or quasi-randomized evaluations to study the effects of foster care and juvenile justice policies on child wellbeing.
Doyle is faculty director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative, co-chair of the Health Sector of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and Co-Principal Investigator of the NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health.
He holds 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 (2024): 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.
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.
Cooper, Ryan, Joseph J. Doyle, and Andrés P. Hojman (Conditionally Accepted at American Economic Review), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6825-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2024. NBER Working Paper 30974.
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.
