Administrative Burden and Vaccination Uptake Disparities
Administrative burden, insurance coverage, and COVID-19 vaccination among low-income adults. Published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
Eli Kochersperger
:: the dinosaur law ::
economics / cities / health / teaching / data / old machines
I am an economist working on applied microeconomics, urban systems, health policy, and teaching experiments. This site is an archive of papers, research notes, data objects, classroom materials, and unfinished ideas.
Archive
2026
Why Economics Keeps Options Open
An interactive labor-market game about the option value of choosing a college major. Students choose among five stylized majors before learning what kind of labor market they will face, with the underlying patterns calibrated using recent ACS and BLS data.
New Jersey Dog Licensing and Shelter Records, 2017–2024
Dog licensing records and annual shelter and pound reports obtained through a New Jersey public-records request. I have not finished cleaning and digitizing everything, so for now I am posting the records essentially as I received them.
When Is a Commute “Reverse”?
With Daniel Centuriao. We develop a network-based definition of reverse commuting that does not require imposing a single metropolitan center, and compare it with conventional measures across 40 U.S. metropolitan areas.
Digitization and the Limits of Productivity Growth in Aging Industries
With Nazif Durmaz, Alka Bishnoi, and Irina Gioaba. We ask whether industries with older workforces realize smaller productivity gains from information and communication technology, using European country–industry data from 1995–2019 and complementary evidence on workforce adjustment and technostress.
Allegheny County Drug Chemistry Records
Raw drug-chemistry case records obtained through a public-records request to Allegheny County. The files span multiple administrative extracts from 2008–2025 and include laboratory results, sample types, offense dates, submission dates, and completion dates. These are still largely in the form in which I received them.
2025
The Role of Fear in Harm Reduction: Misinformation’s Impact on Naloxone Use
An article on how fentanyl-exposure misinformation may shape willingness to use naloxone in overdose response.
Interactive Economics Instruction with Amplify Activity Builder
A paper on using interactive activity-builder tools in economics instruction and classroom experiments.
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Kraków, July.
2024
Fatal Misperceptions: Fentanyl Exposure Misinformation and Opioid Mortality
Evidence on how exaggerated fears about incidental fentanyl exposure may shape emergency response and opioid-related health outcomes.
Observed Morels Across the United States Over a Calendar Year
An animated map of observed morels over the course of the year, built from iNaturalist observations.
Notes
Some things here are finished papers. Many are not.
I use this site as a public cabinet for: - working papers - research notes - data sketches - theory fragments - teaching materials - literature maps - code and replication objects
A page being posted here does not mean it is final. It means it may be useful, interesting, or worth returning to.