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Jeffrey DeSimone joined the Department of Economics at Duke University in July 2022 as Professor of Practice and inaugural director of the Duke Economic Analytics Lab. His research focuses on various social issues, including the impacts of the minimum legal drinking age on alcohol consumption and its potential harmful outcomes, the causes and consequences of mass shootings related to gun prevalence, and how disease severity influences vaccination behavior. DeSimone's work also covers the analysis of weekly suicide cycles and situational factors such as the Texas Winter Storms of 2021 and 2023, and he explores optimal near-goal line positioning in football, as well as racial bias in Major League Baseball Hall of Fame selections. Throughout his career, he has contributed to numerous publications addressing these critical real-world problems.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)