Sebastian Linde is an assistant professor at the Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is also affiliated with the Center for Advancing Population Science. His research is focused on examining health disparities within the health care industry. His interests include the study of health care pricing, provider networks, hospital cost efficiency and the effects of health policy.
PhD in Economics, 2017
Purdue University, USA
MSc Mathematics, 2012
Loyola University at Chicago, USA
MPhil Economic Research, 2011
University of Cambridge, UK
BSc Economics and Finance, First Class Honors, 2009
Cardiff University, UK
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.
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.
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)
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)
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)
Graduate/Faculty Classes
Graduate Classes
Undergraduate Classes
Head Instructor
ECON 451 Game Theory (Summer 2015)
ECON 451 Game Theory (Summer 2014)
Recitation Instructor
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