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Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 2020 - 2025
- Research Areas: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Machine Learning
B.Sc. in Mathematics & Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2016 - 2020
Work Experience
Economist - Digital Innovation & Sustainable Economy, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025 - Current
Data Scientist, Valenz Health, Houston, TX, 2023 - 2025
Doctoral Researcher, UH Hobby School of Public Affairs, Houston, TX, 2023 - 2025
Doctoral Researcher, Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute - UH College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2022 - 2023
Publications
Atsusaka, Y., Holbrook J. “Archive: A database of tabulated results from American ranked-choice voting elections” — Under Review, Nature Scientific Data, Nov. 2025
Chae, M., Chavez, A., Singh, M., Holbrook, J., Glasheen, W., Woodard, L., & Adepoju, O. “Evaluating Predictors of Participation in Telephone-Base Social Connectedness Interventions for Older Adults: A Dual Machine-Learning and Regression Approach” — Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, Sept. 2023
Cardon, J., Showalter, M., & Holbrook, J. “Estimating the Effect of Focused Donor Registration Efforts on the Number of Organ Donors” — Public Library of Science, PLOS ONE, Nov. 2020
Conferences and Seminars
- AI4Education 2025 - Cambodia National Conference, 2025
- Stata Texas Empirical Microeconomics Conference*, 2024
- Texas Camp Econometrics, 2024
- Texas Applied Micro Workshop (TEAMS, organizer), 2024
- BYU Graduate Student Conference, 2024
- AI in Health, Rice University*, 2023
- Texas Applied Micro Workshop (TEAMS), 2023
- Academy Health*, 2023
- American Society of Health Economists (ASHECON), 2023
- University of Houston Graduate Research Seminar, 2022
* Poster Session
Awards and Honors
- Walter J. Primeaux Jr. and Natalie A. Primeaux Scholarship, 2023 - 2024
- Outstanding 3rd Year Paper Award – UH Department of Economics, 2023
- Director of Graduate Studies Research Grant, 2022
- Henry Graham Economics Scholarship, 2021 - 2022
- Steele Reese Memorial Foundation, 2016 - 2019
- BYU Academic Scholarship, 2017 - 2019
- Walter U. Fuhriman Scholarship – BYU Department of Economics, 2018 - 2020
Skills
Data Skills: Web Scraping, Natural Language Processing (NLP), (REST) APIs
Programming: Python, R, Stata, SQL
Databases/Platforms: SQL Server, MySQL, Databricks, Snowflake