Qing Gong

Qing Gong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has been employed since 2018. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (2018), an M.A. in Economics (2012) and B.A. in Economics (2010) from Peking University.

Her research focuses on empirical microeconomics, intersecting public economics, health economics, and labor economics. She employs structural and reduced-form methods to study how physicians learn and make treatment choices, and how physician performance can be evaluated in the context of patient sorting and team dynamics.

Recent publications (2024–2025) highlight her work on

• telehealth payment parity and its effects on outpatient and emergency care utilization
• Medicare spending patterns linked to accountable care organizations
• multimorbidity's impact on labor force participation
• gender dynamics in physician income

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Her earlier work (2016–2020) includes studies on

• pollution policy spillovers in China
• fraud detection mechanisms in Medicare billing

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