Maurice Dalton

I build data systems for health economics research—pipelines that process terabytes of Medicare claims, tools that standardize how teams manage code and data, and estimation methods that measure hospital competition.

Most of my work sits at the intersection of econometrics and software engineering: making it easier to do rigorous empirical research at scale.

selected publications

NBER

Are hospital quality indicators causal?

Amitabh Chandra, Maurice Dalton, and Douglas O. Staiger

2023

Bib

@techreport{chandra2023hospital,
  title = {Are hospital quality indicators causal?},
  author = {Chandra, Amitabh and Dalton, Maurice and Staiger, Douglas O.},
  year = {2023},
  institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research},
}

JAMA

Organization and performance of US health systems

Nancy D. Beaulieu, Michael E. Chernew, J. Michael McWilliams, and 3 more authors

JAMA, 2023

Bib

@article{beaulieu2023organization,
  title = {Organization and performance of US health systems},
  author = {Beaulieu, Nancy D. and Chernew, Michael E. and McWilliams, J. Michael and Landrum, Mary Beth and Dalton, Maurice and others},
  journal = {JAMA},
  volume = {329},
  number = {4},
  pages = {325--335},
  year = {2023},
}

HSR

Integrated health systems and medical care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kaushik Ghosh, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Maurice Dalton, and 3 more authors

Health Services Research, 2025

Bib

@article{ghosh2025integrated,
  title = {Integrated health systems and medical care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic},
  author = {Ghosh, Kaushik and Beaulieu, Nancy D. and Dalton, Maurice and El Amrani, Zahra and Machado, Helena and Cutler, David M.},
  journal = {Health Services Research},
  volume = {60},
  number = {3},
  pages = {e14433},
  year = {2025},
}