Research

Publications

Linde, S., Walker, R. J., Campbell, J. A., Egede, L. E. (2022). Historic Residential Redlining and Present-day Diabetes Mortality and Years of Life Lost: The Persistence of Structural Racism. Diabetes Care.

Linde, S., Egede, L. E. (2022). Do Chargemaster Prices Matter?: An Examination of Acute Care Hospital Profitability. Medical Care.

Linde, S., Egede, L. E. (2022). Trends in charges and association with defaults on medical payments in uninsured Americans: a disproportionate burden in ethnic minorities - a retrospective observational study. BMJ Open.

Linde, S., Egede, L. E. (2022). Association of County Race and Ethnicity Characteristics With Number of Insurance Carriers and Insurance Network Breadth. JAMA Network Open.

Linde, S., Egede, L. E. (2022). Retrospective observational study of the robustness of provider network structures to the systemic shock of COVID-19: a county level analysis of COVID-19 outcomes. BMJ Open.

Linde, S., Egede, L. E. (2022). Provider Network Structure and Black-to-White Disparity Gaps for Medicare Patients with Diabetes: County Level Analysis of Cost, Utilization, and Clinical Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Beilfuss, S., Linde, S., Norton, B. (2022). Accountable Care Organizations and Physician Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior. Social Science & Medicine.

Linde, S., Beilfuss, S. (2021). Association of Multiple Hospital Affiliations With Clinician Service Use, Breadth of Procedures, and Costs. JAMA Network Open.

Beilfuss, S., Linde, S. (2021). Pharmaceutical Opioid Marketing and Physician Prescribing Behavior. Health Economics.

Linde, S. (2019). The formation of physician patient sharing networks in medicare: Exploring the effect of hospital affiliation. Health Economics. 28: 1435–1448.

Morgan, A., O’Gara, M., Crilly Bellucci, C., Linde, S., Albert, M., Curtis, A., Patel, P., Kapp-Simon, K. A. (2018). Speech Production Skills in Children With Cleft Palate Who Were Internationally Adopted. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 55(9), 1225-1235.

Morgan, A., Crilly Bellucci, C., Coppersmith, J., Linde, S., Curtis, A., Albert, M., O’Gara, M. M., Kapp- Simon, K. (2017). Language Development in Children With Cleft Palate With or Without Cleft Lip Adopted From Non–English-Speaking Countries. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(2), 342-354.

Other Reports

Linde, S., Simons, G. (2020). Health Check 2020: Analyzing Trends in West Michigan (vol. 11). Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Valley State University.
[Web: Health Check]

Callison, K., Linde, S., Muller, L., Simons, G. (2019). Health Check 2019: Analyzing Trends in West Michigan (vol. 10). Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Valley State University.

Working Papers

Hospital Efficiency: a Factor Model Approach. [Under Review]

The Effect of Bargaining Power Determinants on Pharmaceutical Prices (With Brandon Norton and Ralph Siebert) [Under Review]

Healthcare Provider Collaboration Networks and Hospital Costs and Quality (with Hajime Shimao) [R&R]

Major Complexity Index and College Skill Production. (with Xiaoxiao Li and Hajime Shimao) [GitHub: Complexity Index Package] [R&R]

Do Mergers Among Multimarket Firms Create Value? (with Ralph Siebert) [R&R]

Exploring the Heterogenous Effects of State Price Transparency Laws on Hospital Price Distributions. (with Ralph Siebert)

Work In Progress

Pharmacy Pricing and Competition (With Gunter Hitch, Brandon Norton and Ralph Siebert)

Estimating Skill-Added: A Revealed Choice Set Approach of College Major and Occupation Choices (with Xiaoxiao Li, and Hajime Shimao)

Recent & Upcoming Talks

American Diabetes Association’s 82nd Scientific Sessions, Jun 2022, (Presenter)

Society of General Internal Medicine, Apr 2022, (Presenter; Milton W. Hamolsky Awardee)

Southern Economic Association, Nov 2021, (Presenter)

Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Nov 2021, [Accepted as presenter, but canceled due to COVID-19]

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Spring 2021 Meeting (invited paper)

Invited Seminar Presentation at Western Michigan University, Feb 2021, (Presenter)

Southern Economic Association 90th Annual Meeting, Nov 2020, (Roles: Presenter, Session Chair)

CAPS Seminar Series, Nov 2020, (Presenter)

Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Nov 2020, (Presenter)

Southern Economic Association, Nov 2020, (Presenter)

International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), May 2020, [Accepted as presenter, but canceled due to COVID-19]

Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Conference, Mar 2020, [Accepted as presenter, but canceled due to COVID-19]

West Michigan Healthcare Economics Forecast, Jan 2020, (Presenter)

Muskegon Westshore Healthcare Economics Forecast, Mar 2019, (Presenter)

Holland Westshore Healthcare Economics Forecast, Mar 2019, (Presenter)

West Michigan Healthcare Economics Forecast, Jan 2019, (Presenter)

Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Nov 2018, (Presenter)

Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) Conference, Nov 2018, (Presenter, Discussant, Chair)

Health Forum of West Michigan, May 2018, (Moderator)

Teaching

Medical College of Wisconsin:

Graduate/Faculty Classes

  • GIM Learning Academy - Health Economics (Spring 2021)
  • CTSI-20262: Health Economics (Fall 2020; Fall 2021)

Grand Valley State University:

Graduate Classes

  • ECO641: Business Economics and Strategy (Winter 2019)
  • ECO643 & PA633: Health Economics (Winter 2018; Fall 2018; Winter 2020)

Undergraduate Classes

  • ECO312: Applied Microeconomics (Fall 2017; Fall 2018; Winter 2020)
  • ECO343: Health Economics (Winter 2018; Fall 2019)

Purdue University:

Head Instructor

  • ECON 451 Game Theory (Summer 2015)

    • Award: Distinguished Instructor Award
    • Overall Instructor Rating Score: 4.9 / 5.0
  • ECON 451 Game Theory (Summer 2014)

    • Award: Distinguished Instructor Award
    • Overall Instructor Rating Score: 4.8 / 5.0

Recitation Instructor

  • ECON 210 Principles of Economics (Fall 2012);
    • Award: Distinguished Recitation Instructor Award
    • Recitation Class 1 Instructor Rating Score: 5.0 / 5.0
    • Recitation Class 2 Instructor Rating Score: 4.8 /5.0

Teaching Assistance Work

PhD Courses:

  • ECON 631 Empirical Industrial Organization
  • ECON 615 Mathematical Economics
  • ECON 606 Microeconomic Theory 1
  • ECON 607 Microeconomic Theory 2
  • ECON 650 Labor Economics

Undergraduate Courses:

  • ECON 499 Senior Honors Thesis
  • ECON 451 Game Theory

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