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Mitigating Risk: Smartphone Notifications, Adaptive Surveying, and Genetics.
(2015)
Modern information technologies have revolutionized how we can study risk taking. I leverage datasets produced by three of these technologies to investigate the mitigation of risk associated with obesity, saving for ...
Alcohol consumption and body weight
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National ...
Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture
(McGraw HillWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019-07)
A large literature has documented strong positive correlations among siblings in health, including body mass index (BMI) and obesity. This paper tests whether that is explained by a specific type of peer effect in obesity: ...
Hospital-physician integration and risk-coding intensity
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Yale University Press, 2022-07)
Hospital-physician integration has surged in recent years. Integration may allow hospitals to share resources and management practices with their integrated physicians that increase the reported diagnostic severity of their ...
Examining General Managers in the North American Professional Sport Context: Upper Echelons and Logics of Action as Determinants of Performance.
(2012)
This study integrates and extends the literature on upper echelons theory (UET) and institutional theory by investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision making in the North American professional sport context. ...
Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Incorporating Biodiversity into Food Systems Modeling: Fisheries-Nutrition Linkages in Ghana
(2023)
Food systems in low- and middle-income countries are rapidly transforming due to population growth, urbanization, rising consumer incomes, and changes to built and natural environments. These trends are associated with a ...
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 ...