Research Interests
For my third-year research seminar I presented “How Oncologists Learn About New Chemotherapy Drugs,” a working paper with Profs. Claudio Lucarelli and Sean Nicholson. Using the introduction of irinotecan in 1996 for the treatment of colon cancer, we investigate the determinants of adoption among physicians using the linked Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) – Medicare linked data set. Currently we are extending the analysis to breast and non-small cell lung cancers.
Contact Information
Joseph LeCates
Deptartment of Economics
404 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
E-mail: jrl73@cornell.edu Phone: (607)699-1006