Stephen P. Ryan's Homepage

Myron Northrop Professor of Economics
Senior Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
email: stephen.p.ryan(at)wustl.edu

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Hello, and welcome to my webpage. I have been a member of the Economics group in the Olin Business School at WashU since 2016. I am presently the Senior Associate Dean of Doctoral Programs and Area Chair of the Economics group. I teach in the executive MBA programs in Mumbai and Shanghai and have a doctoral-level class in Antitrust and Regulation every other year. My research areas are rooted in industrial organization and applied econometrics. I have applied IO tools to environmental, development, and health economics contexts. I presently am working on three main projects: a structural evaluation of the federally-facilitated ACA Marketplaces; estimating the implied value of statistical life revealed through the choices of first-time US Army re-enlistees; and the application of machine learning tools to allow for adaptive semiparametric estimation.

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UCLA Slides for Partial Homogeneity

By stephen.p.ryan May 6, 2022

UCLA_slides

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Empirical Dynamic Games Handbook Chapter Posted

By stephen.p.ryan October 1, 2021

In preparation for the forthcoming volume of the Handbook of Industrial Organization: Dynamic Games in Empirical Industrial Organization

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Update to VSL Paper

By stephen.p.ryan October 1, 2021

We have an updated version of our paper using Army reenlistment decisions to estimate the value of statistical life (VSL): [PDF] The Heterogeneous Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from U.S. Army Reenlistment Decisions

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Subsidy Targeting with Market Power updated

By stephen.p.ryan May 31, 2021

New version can found be here: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

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New Version of Targeted Subsidies and Market Power

By stephen.p.ryan December 23, 2020

After a year of revision (adding in marginal cost by type, preferences for redistribution, and refocusing the paper to look at distributional effects of targeting with market power), I’m happy to post the updated version: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

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Pakistan Schools Paper Conditionally Accepted

By stephen.p.ryan April 13, 2020

Our paper on schools in Pakistan has been conditionally accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.

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Update to Pakistan Schools Paper

By stephen.p.ryan January 31, 2020

We have just updated our paper, “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan.” You can find it here: PPRS_Jan31_2020.pdf.

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New Version of Moment Forests Paper Posted

By stephen.p.ryan October 28, 2019

We have updated our Moment Forests paper: momentForests.pdf The paper is currently under review.

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Paper submitted: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

By stephen.p.ryan October 28, 2019

My paper with Maria Polyakova, “Subsidy Targeting with Market Power,” is finally under review. A brief synopsis of the paper appeared on Stanford’s front page: https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/entitlement-spending-waste.

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Status Change: Pakistan Schooling Paper

By stephen.p.ryan May 16, 2019

We have received an R&R on our Pakistan schools paper [pprs_sept_2018] at the Review of Economics and Statistics.