Jetson Leder-Luis

He is currently serving as an assistant professor at Boston University and holds the position of Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. His research primarily focuses on examining issues related to fraud, misreporting, and overbilling in public expenditures, with a special emphasis on the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Additionally, he investigates the impact of these fraudulent activities on public spending and the health outcomes of patients. His research interests extend to the identification and prevention of fraud and corruption, as well as the statistical characteristics of inaccurately reported data. His work is situated at the crossroads of various fields, including public economics, health economics, political economy, and law and economics.

Education

• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
• BS, California Institute of Technology, 2014

Selected Publications

• Leder-Luis, J. (In Press). "Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare", The Review of Economics and Statistics, Conditionally Accepted
• Leder-Luis, J., Ensminger, J. (2022). "Detecting Fraud in Development Aid", NBER Working Paper Series (W30768)
• Leder-Luis, J. (2021). "Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud", The Conversation
• Leder-Luis, J., Roberts, J., Eliason, P., McDevitt, R., League, R. (2021). "Ambulance Taxis: Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud", NBER Working Paper Series (29491)
• Angrist, J., Lavy, V., Leder-Luis, J., Shany, A. (2019). "Maimonides Rule Redux", American Economic Review: Insights, 1 (3), 309-324
• Reich, J., Tingley, D., Leder-Luis, J., Roberts, M., Stewart, B. (2014). "Computer-Assisted Reading and Discovery for Student Generated Text in Massive Open Online Courses", Journal of Learning Analytics, 2 (1)
• Roberts, M., Stewart, B., Tingley, D., Lucas, C., Leder-Luis, J., Gadarian, S., Albertson, B., Rand, D. (2014). "Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses", American Journal of Political Science, 58 (4), 1064-1082

Selected Research Presentations

• Leder-Luis, J. Dying or Lying? For Profit Hospices and End of Life Care, American Society for Hispanic Economists, Virtual, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Dying or Lying? For Profit Hospices and End of Life Care, Boston University Economics Department Applied Micro Seminar, Boston University, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud, Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM), Austin, Texas, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud, Duke Economics, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud, Harvard-MIT-BU Health Economics Workshop, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge MA, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud, University of Chicago Health Economics Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2022
• Leder-Luis, J. Strategic Firm Behavior and Patient Consequences in the Medicare Hospice Program, National Tax Association, Virtual, 2021
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis, NBER Public Economics Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 2021
• Leder-Luis, J. Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare, American Law and Economics Association Meetings, Virtual, 2021
• Leder-Luis, J. Ambulance Taxis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dept of Economics, Virtual, 2021
• Leder-Luis, J. Regulation Vs. Litigation: Enforcement and Deterrence of Medicare Fraud, American Society of Health Economists Conference, Virtual, 2021
• Leder-Luis, J. Whistleblowers, Private Enforcement, and Medicare Fraud, Nuna Healthcare, 2020
• Leder-Luis, J. Whistleblowers, Private Enforcement and Medicare Fraud, Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business, Accounting Seminar, 2020
• Leder-Luis, J. Whistleblowers, Private Enforcement, and Medicare Fraud, Duke Law School Empirical Health Law Conference, 2020

Awards And Honors

• 2022, Broderick Award for Excellence in Teaching, Questrom School of Business
• 2022, NBER Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
• 2021, National Tax Association Equity and Inclusion Travel Fellowship
• 2021, APPAM Equity and Inclusion Young Professionals Fellowship
• 2020, American Society of Hispanic Economists, Annual Dissertation Award
• 2019, Predoctoral Fellowship in Aging and Health, National Bureau of Economic Research
• 2019, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Ford Foundation,