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Kurt Sweat, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Academic AreaEconomics
Academic AreaHealth

Kurt Sweat is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and is affiliated with the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. His fields of research are market design, health economics, structural econometrics, and industrial organization. His research employs econometric models grounded in economic theory to study market design in healthcare settings. His recent research has focused on the design of the heart transplant waitlist in the United States.

Education

  • PhD, Economics, Stanford University 
  • MA, Economics, Stanford University 
  • BS, Mathematics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
  • BA, Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Working Papers

Endogenous Priority in Centralized Matching Markets: The Design of the Heart Transplant Waitlist

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