Jacob Dorn

Jacob Dorn

Postdoctoral Researcher

Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests are the industrial organization of health markets and econometrics. I will join the Department of Economics at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025.

I received my PhD in Economics from Princeton University in May 2024. My advisor was Kate Ho. Before starting graduate school, I received a BS in mathematics with a specialization in economics from the University of Chicago in 2017 and was a Stanford Law Empirical Research Fellow under John Donohue III between 2017 and 2018.

Interests

  • Industrial organization
  • Health economics
  • Econometrics

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2024

    Princeton University

  • MS in Economics, 2020

    Princeton University

  • BS in Mathematics with a Specialization in Economics, 2017

    University of Chicago

Teaching

ECO 332: Economics of Health and Health Care

In-person: Spring 2022 (Preceptor)

Senior Thesis Assistant

In-person: Spring 2021

MATH 131-133: Elem Functions and Calculus

In-person: Fall 2014-Spring 2015 (Tutor)

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