Kelly Kaili Yang
Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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I am an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and an Affiliate of the Indiana University Health Economics Consortium. I received my PhD in Economics from Duke University in 2024.
My research interests include Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics, and Trade, with a focus on technology adoption, quality upgrading, and the effects of regulatory policy.
My CV can be downloaded here.
Contact: ky21 [at] iu.edu
[New version coming soon]
A Practitioner's Guide to Using Data on Private Equity Hospital Acquisitions [Public Good]
(with Sungil Kim, Mark Naslund, Xingzhi Wang, Abid Hasan, Hongbin Huang, Hyong-gu Hwang, Ambar La Forgia, Riley League, and Ryan McDevitt)
Health Affairs Scholar, 4(4), 2026.
Gravity Modeling to Predict Patient Choice of Hospital for Pancreaticoduodenectomy
(with Katie Ross-Driscoll, Sarah Huber, Alexa Hughes, Adam Wilk, Karl Bilimoria, Rachel Patzer, and Ryan Ellis)
Annals of Surgical Oncology, 33(7), 2026.
(with Banu Demir, Cecilia Fieler, and Daniel Xu)
Journal of Political Economy, 132(1), 2024.
(with Marcelo Cerullo, Karen Joynt Maddox, Anaeze C. Offodile II, Ryan McDevitt, and James Roberts),
Harvard Business Review, 2023.
(with Marcelo Cerullo, Karen Joynt Maddox, Anaeze C. Offodile II, Ryan McDevitt, and James Roberts)
JAMA Network Open, 5(4), 2022.
(with Marcelo Cerullo, Anaeze C. Offodile II, Ryan McDevitt, and James Roberts)
Health Affairs, 40(11), 2021.
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Instructor, Predictive Analytics for Business Strategy (BA)
Instructor, Econometric Methods in Business II (PhD)
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Teaching Assistant, Health Care Markets (MBA)
Teaching Assistant, Empirical Analysis for Strategy (MSc)
Teaching Assistant, Managerial Economics (MSc)
Department of Economics, Duke University
Teaching Assistant, Applied Econometrics in Microeconomics (MA)