Kevin Kloiber

Welcome!

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Munich Graduate School of Economics as a member of the Egon Sohmen Graduate Center. I study how frictions and shocks in health and labor markets shape behavior and inequality. 

I am on the 2025/26 academic job market. 

My job market paper examines how the clarity of hospital discharge instructions affects patient survival. When patients leave the hospital, they receive written instructions on how to care for themselves at home. I find that patients who receive more complex, harder-to-read instructions are more likely to die within a month of discharge, especially for conditions like heart failure that require intensive daily self-management. Simplifying these instructions could save lives at minimal cost compared to other healthcare interventions.

I also study the long-run impacts of growing up with a disabled sibling and household labor supply elasticities following the 2015 Swiss franc shock. Furthermore, I develop tests for identification in mediation and dynamic treatment settings.

Before my Ph.D., I worked as a pre-doctoral research assistant at Stanford University with David Chan on healthcare projects.

Contact: kevin [dot] kloiber [at} econ [dot] lmu [dot] de