Jonathan Ketcham, Ph.D. is the Earl G. and Gladys C. Davis Distinguished Research Professor in Business in the W.P. Carey School’s Department of Marketing and Department of Economics at Arizona State University. He conducts econometric studies of the roles of incentives and information in health care markets, with a focus on consumer and physician decision making. He has collaborated on research projects with Pfizer Inc, Banner Health, CVS Caremark, Symphony Health Solutions, FAIR Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His research has been published in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Econometrics, The International Economic Review The Rand Journal of Economics and elsewhere. For this work, Dr. Ketcham has received the NIHCM Foundation's Annual Health Care Research Award, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from AUPHA, and two federal R01 grants. He earned a B.A in Economics from Baylor University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 2002
B.A. Economics, Baylor University 1997
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
WORKING PAPERS
Kelly Bishop, Jonathan Ketcham, and Nicolai Kuminoff. “Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia.” Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies. NBER working paper #24970.
Jonathan Ketcham, Pierre Léger and Claudio Lucarelli. “Group Incentives and Standardization: An Application to Hospital-Physician Gainsharing.” Revise and resubmit, RAND Journal of Economics.
Jonathan Ketcham and Chad Stecher. “Learning to Work Together: Productivity Gains from Shared Experience among Cardiology Teams.” Under review.
Jonathan Ketcham, Nicolai Kuminoff and Nirman Saha. “Valuing Statistical Life Using Seniors’ Medical Spending.”
Jonathan Ketcham, Nicolai Kuminoff and Tomás Sanguinetti. “Using Stochastic Dominance to Evaluate Consumers’ Insurance Choices.”
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ECN 355 | Economics of Healthcare |
ECN 455 | Health Economics |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ECN 455 | Health Economics |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MKT 352 | Marketing Research |
ECN 455 | Health Economics |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
WPC 591 | Seminar |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MKT 352 | Marketing Research |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSM 512 | Healthcare Economics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
MKT 352 | Marketing Research |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HSM 512 | Healthcare Economics |
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Jay Bhattacharya and Jonathan Ketcham. September 2021. “This Will Come Back to Haunt Us” OpEd for Common Sense with Bari Weiss, “Vaccine Mandates: The End of Covid? Or the Beginning of Tyranny?”
Jonathan Ketcham. June 2021. “No free lunch.” Editorial for CollateralGlobal.org.
Jay Bhattacharya and Jonathan Ketcham. April 2020. “The Economic Case against Medicare For All.” Cato Unbound. Cato Unbound.
Jonathan Ketcham, Nicolai Kuminoff, and Christopher Powers. December 2016. “Rejoinder to Abaluck and Gruber.” Available here.
Jonathan Ketcham. “To reduce Alzheimer’s disease, clean up the air.” November 2019. Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research policy brief.