Professor Daniel Goetz

Published papers and research reports:

Telemedicine Competition, Pricing, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Talk Therapists is currently revise & resubmit at International Journal of Industrial Organization.  Using Canadian data on talk therapists, it shows that the entry of telemedicine competitors during the first wave of COVID-19 actually led local therapists to raise prices.

Does Providing Free Internet Access to Low-Income Households Affect the Spread of COVID-19? is currently revise & resubmit at Health Economics.  It evaluates the deployment of free Wifi to low-income apartment blocks in Toronto during COVID-19 and document a reduction in case rates as individuals with WiFi spent more leisure time at home.

Working papers, both related to mental health care (tentative titles):

The Effect of Local Income on Psychotherapy Prices. This paper leverages exogenous variation in therapists' precise migration destinations within the U.S. to evaluate how healthcare prices respond to local income levels.

Pricing and Access in Canadian Psychotherapy Before, During, and After COVID-19.  In this descriptive paper, it documents patterns in pricing and migration amongst Canadian psychotherapists over the past 3 years and discuss policy implications.