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Jun Li

Jun Li

Contact Information:

jli208@syr.edu

315.443.8009

314 Lyman Hall

Jun Li

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department


Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

Research Affiliate

Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • PAI 736 Health Economics & Policy
    • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • 2024 Fall
    • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
    • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System
  • 2023 Fall
    • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
    • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 2020

Bio

Jun Li joined the public administration and international affairs department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2020. At Syracuse University, Li teaches classes in health policy and health economics including The Changing American Health Care System. 

Li’s research aims to improve the quality of care provided by the U.S. health care system. A large part of her research tries to understand the consequences of Medicare payment incentives. Recently, she investigated Medicare’s performance-based contracts with hospitals and home health care providers, and how these incentives affect their behavior. Li has also investigated the role of health care report cards on patients’ use of services.

Her research has been supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Additionally, she has received funding from the Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the Walter J. McNerney Award, and the Collaborative Doctoral Scholars Program from the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan.

Li earned a Ph.D. in health services organization and policy from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2020, an M.S.P.H. in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012, and a B.A. in studio arts from Carleton College in 2010. 

Areas of Expertise

Health economics, health services research, post-acute and long-term care

Research Interests

Health economics, health insurance reimbursement design, pay-for-performance, health care report cards, long-term care, home health care, health care disparities.

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Specialization in Post-Acute Dementia Care: Do High-Volume Home Health Agencies and Skilled Nursing Facilities Result in Better Patient Outcomes?", Sponsored by National Institute on Aging/NIH/DHHS.

"Acute Occupational Therapy Spending in the National Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Program", Sponsored by The American Occupational Therapy Foundation.

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

ASSA American Economic Association, ""Learning by Doing" in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (2024)

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California-Davis, "Medicare Policies and Implications for Health System Functioning and Patient Welfare" (2024)

CAPRA-NBER Scientific Meeting: Financial & Economic Decision-making, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Outcomes Over the Lifecycle, "Skilled Home Health Care Specialization and Implications for People Living with Dementia" (2024)

International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, "Skilled Home Health Care Specialization and Implications for People Living with Dementia" (2024)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Wage Pass-Through Policies, Direct Care Worker Compensation, and Labor Supply in the Home Health Care Sector" (2024)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, "’Learning by Doing’ in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (2024)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "’Learning by Doing’ in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (2024)

State Society on Aging, "Bundled Payment Incentives Improves Uptake of Prescribed Post-Acute Home Health Care for White and Black Patients Undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery" (2023)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Does Bundled Payment Reduce Disparities in Home Health Care Receipt Among Medicare Patients?" (2023)

ASSA American Economic Association, "Effects of Star Ratings in Home Health on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Use of Care" (2023)

International Health Economics Association, "Public Reporting of Quality Ratings and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Care Sector" (2023)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Racial-Ethnic Differences in Home Health Care Uptake: The Role of Financial Incentives in Hospitals" (2023)

Quality Measures Technical Forum (February Meeting), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "Disparities in Home Health Visits" (2022)

Economics Department, University of New Hampshire, "Home Health Star Ratings and Consumer Demand" (2022)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Increasing Access to SNAP for Older Adults through the Standard Medical Deduction" (2022)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (2022)

International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, "Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector" (2022)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Unmet Functional Needs and Care Support in the Last Decade" (2022)

Center for Aging and Policy Studies Annual Conference, "Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Low-Income, Aging Adults' Use of Informal Care" (2021)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (2021)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Choosing Home Health Care on the Basis of Medicare Star Ratings: Is There Value in Picking the Best?" (2020)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference (Cancelled), "Effects of Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings on Patient Admissions, a Regression Discontinuity Approach" (2020)

Department of Economics, University of Kansas, "Value-based payments in health care: Evidence from a nationwide randomized experiment in the home health sector" (2020)

Honors and Accolades

Early Investigator Outstanding Paper Award, Health Economics Interest Group of AcademyHealth (June 29, 2024 - June 29, 2024)

Center for Disability Resources Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Award, Center for Disability Resources (April 30, 2024 - April 30, 2024)

2021-2022 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Early Career Performance, Syracuse University (2022)

Honorable Mention, John Heinz Dissertation Award, National Academy of Social Insurance (2021)

Honorable Mention, PhD Dissertation Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2021)

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (2019 - 2020)