Jason Owen-Smith

Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Professor, Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Professor, Department of Sociology.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research.
Professor of Organizational Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Arizona

Research Interests: Dr. Owen-Smith's research focuses on economic sociology, organizational theory, network theory, the sociology of science and technology, and research methods.

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jdos@umich.edu

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Ghomrawi, Hassan M. K., Russell J. Funk, Michael L. Parks, Jason Owen-Smith, and John M. Hollingsworth. 2018. "Physician referral patterns and racial disparities in total hip replacement: A network analysis approach." PLOS ONE, 13(2): e0193014.

Funk, R.J., Jason Owen-Smith, S.A. Kaufman, B.K. Nallamothu, and J.M. Hollingsworth. Forthcoming. "Association of informal clinical integration of physicians with cardiac surgery payments." JAMA Surgery.

Sattari, Reza, Julia I. Lane, and Jason Owen-Smith. 2017. "New Insights into Food Safety Research Teams." In Measuring the Economic Value of Research: The Case of Food Safety edited by Husbands Fealing, Kaye, Lane, Julia I., King, John L., Johnson, Stanley R.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Funk, Russell, and Jason Owen-Smith. Forthcoming. "A Dynamic Network Measure of Technological Change." Management Science.

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Collaborative Research: New Insights into STEM Pathways: The Role of Peers, Networks, and Demand (NSF)

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) - U-award (NCATS)

Developing and Supporting the IRIS Research Community (Sloan)

To develop and test privacy-protection techniques that enable researchers to collect and analyze sensitive data (Sloan)

Assessing the Effects of Accountable Care Organizations on Surgical Spending and Quality (AHRQ)

Collaborative Research: STEM Training, Employment in Industry, and Entrepreneurship Supplement (NSF)

Medical Decision-Making and Network Assembly Mechanisms in Inpatient Surgical Care (NSF)

Will the Reach of ACOs Extend to Specialty Care? (AHRQ)

Pathways to Science and Engineering Professions: Persistence and career choice for bachelors and masters graduates' research experiences, decision points and labor market transitions (NSF)

The role of interprofessional teamwork in complex care delivery (AHRQ)

Empirical Assessment of Respondent Driven Sampling from Total Survey Error Perspectives (NSF)

Collaborative Research: STEM Training, Employment in Industry, and Entrepreneurship (NSF)

Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) (Kauffman)

Learning and Research Analytics: A Workshop to Develop New Measures and Analysis of Student Outcomes (Sloan)

Building Community and a New Data Infrastructure for Science Policy: Supplemental Funding Request (NSF)

Building a Social Science Research Community around a new R&D Data Infrastructure (NSF)

Effects of Physician Social Networks on Surgical Quality, Safety, and Costs (AHRQ)

Building a US Innovation Network (I-Corps) Node in Michigan (NSF)

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