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

Welcome!

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, Area Chair of the Economics group, and Chair of the Senior Faculty. 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.

Update to VSL Paper

Update to VSL Paper

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