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Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
The Effect Of Hospital–Physician Integration On Health Information Technology Adoption
(Princeton University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-10)
The US federal government has recently made a substantial investment to enhance the US health information technology (IT) infrastructure. Previous literature on the impact of IT on firm performance across multiple industries ...
An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
(2009)
In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions ...
Ozone Alerts and Asthma Exacerbations: A Case Study of Dallas-Fort Worth 2000-2008.
(2010)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of public information about air quality (ozone alerts) in modifying the effects of air pollution on asthma exacerbations, using a range of measures that encompass varying ...
The effect of organized breast cancer screening on mammography use: Evidence from France
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-12)
In 2004, France introduced a national program of organized breast cancer screening. The national program built on preexisting local programs in some, but not all, départements. Using data from multiple waves of a nationally ...
Health-seeking behavior and hospital choice in China's New Cooperative Medical System
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-07)
Since the dissolution of the Rural Cooperative Medical System at the end of the commune period, illness has emerged as a leading cause of poverty in rural China. To address the poor state of health care, the Chinese ...
Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self-care?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-06)
Background : Research on self-care for chronic disease has not examined time requirements. Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a multi-site study of managed care patients with diabetes, is among the first ...
The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)