Andy Yuan
Assistant Professor of Law
Expertise
Criminal Law • Empirical Methods • Health Law and Policy • Law and Economics •
About
Professor Andy Yuan is a law and economics scholar specializing in empirical research on health law and policy, as well as criminal law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the American Law and Economic Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the American Journal of Epidemiology, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, among others. Prior to joining the University of Florida, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Education:
J.D., University of Arizona
Ph.D., University of Arizona (Economics)
M.S., University of Arizona (Statistics)
L.L.B., Ocean University of China
Teaching and Scholarship:
Torts, Health Law and Policy
Publications
Law Publications:
- Quantifying the Monetary Impacts of Nonquantitative Changes in Burdens of Proof and Procedural Rules: A Study of Workers’ Compensation, 1997-2016, J. L., Econ., & Org. (forthcoming 2025) (with Price Fishback).
- The Limits of Self Help: A Field Experiment in An Arizona Housing Court, 26 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. (forthcoming 2024) (with Daniel Bernal)
- Runner-up, 2024 Best Empirical Paper Prize, American Law and Economics Review
- Trends in Accident Compensation Before and After the 1972 Burton Commission, 37 ABA J. Labor & Emp. L. 239 (2024) (with Price Fishback).
- The Effects of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location, 20 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 570 (2023) (with Bernard Black, Timea Viragh, David Magid, Qian Eric Luo, and Ali Moghtaderi). [Covered by: Wall Street Journal]
Medical and Health Policy Publications:
- The Association of Hospital-Cardiologist Integration with Patient Outcomes, Care Quality, and Utilization, 85 J. Am. Coll. Cardiology 352-361 (2025) (with Ali Moghtaderi, David J. Magid, Bernard Black, Qian Eric Luo, and Vinay Kini).
- The COVID Excess Mortality Percentage and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID Mortality: Evidence from Indiana and Wisconsin, 19 PLOS ONE e0295936 (2024) (with Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Lorenzo Franchi, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin W Weston, Qian Luo, Ruohao Zhang, Bernard Black).
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality: National Evidence from Death Certificates, 193 Am. J. Epidemiology 853-862 (2024) (with Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Lorenzo Franchi, Jeff Whittle, Benjamin Weston, John Meurer, Qian Luo, Bernard Black).
- Selection Effects and COVID-19 Mortality Risk after Pfizer vs. Moderna Vaccination: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records, 11 Vaccines 971-984 (2023) (with Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin W Weston, Qian Luo, Lorenzo Franchi, Ruohao Zhang, and Bernard Black).
- Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Using a Novel Measure: COVID Excess Mortality Percentage, 11 Vaccines 379-393 (2023) (with Vladimir Atanasov, Natalia Barreto, Jeff Whittle, John Meurer, Benjamin W Weston, Qian Luo, Lorenzo Franchi, Ruohao Zhang, and Bernard Black).
- Distinguishing Moral Hazard from Access for High-Cost Healthcare Under Insurance, 15 PLOS ONE e0231768 (2020) (with Christopher T Robertson, Wendan Zhang, and Keith Joiner).