Owen Fleming

Owen is an applied microeconomist with interests in health and labor economics. Specifically, his research examines the determinants of children's health and health care utilization as well as the role of nonphysicians in health care delivery. In March 2026, Owen will defend his Ph.D. in economics from Wayne State University.

B.A., Economics, University of Michigan-Dearborn
M.A., Economics, Wayne State University

The Muslim Ban and Preventive Care for Children of Middle Eastern Ancestry (with Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel Grossman, and David Slusky), Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2025

Association of Licensure and Relationship Requirement Waivers with Out-of-State Tele-Mental Healthcare, 2019-2021 (with Antonios Koumpias and Lewei Alison Lin), Health Affairs Scholar, 2023

Long-haul COVID: Healthcare Utilization and Medical Expenditures 6 Months Post-diagnosis (with Antonios Koumpias and David Schwartzman), BMC Health Services Research, 2022

Health economics
Health services research
Applied microeconomics
Labor economics