Joseph Doyle, PhD │ CHIBE Research Seminar

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  Joseph Doyle, PhD — Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Registration is required to attend this virtual seminar. To register, please visit: https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qpATb9hRGuADGIFOV8-Ug.

Topic: The Importance of Mean Reversion in Evaluating Healthcare Delivery Reforms

The Importance of Mean Reversion in Evaluating Healthcare Delivery Reforms
This talk describes how mean reversion can complicate the evaluation of healthcare delivery reforms that target patients with extreme baseline outcomes. Using evidence from randomized trials of a food-as-medicine program and an intensive case-management intervention for “superutilizers,” the talk will highlight why valid control groups are essential for evaluating such reforms. The talk concludes with implications for program targeting and clinical trial design.

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.

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