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Three Essays in Health Economics
(2018)
This dissertation contains three essays that explore how nursing homes respond to public reporting, changes in regulation and payments, as well as heterogeneity across organizational forms. More specifically, I focus on ...
Three Essays on Managed Care and Dual Eligibles
(2019)
Over the past several years, Medicare beneficiaries have increasingly chosen to receive their coverage through subsidized, private Medicare plans, rather than through the traditional, government-administered version of ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...
Breastfeeding in the United States: Economic Analyses of Trends and Policies.
(2016)
Public health organizations expend considerable effort and resources to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce disparities on the basis of the medical literature’s conclusion that “breast is best.” Yet, due to data ...
Social Preferences and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care: Evidence from Field Experiments
(2017)
This dissertation explores behavioral incentives generated by individuals making choices in peer group settings in order to assess whether these incentives can be harnessed towards improving people’s willingness to invest ...
Three Essays in Health Economics
(2017)
State governments play a major role in the United States health care market. Moreover, states administer much of the regulation, budgeting, and policy for their own markets, which creates idiosyncratic differences across ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2022)
This dissertation investigates whether healthcare decisions and health behaviors are affected by institutions and incentives, focusing on the legal system (Chapter 1), health insurance coverage (Chapter 2), and soda taxes ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Consumerism in Health Policy
(2019)
Consumerism, the notion of giving people the ability and responsibility to make choices about cost and quality, is an increasingly popular strategy to contain health spending. Yet we lack robust knowledge about how recent ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2017)
My dissertation broadly relates to the low uptake of preventive health services in developing countries despite the services’ low cost and potential to avert subsequent catastrophic expenses. In the first two chapters, I ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...