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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 ...
Multivariate Functional Regression and Selection
(2020)
With the pervasiveness of sensor data, real-time physiological signals and behavioral data are often collected in many biomedical studies. This thesis is motivated by data collected from a tri-axis accelerometer ActiGraph ...
History and Human Capital in Developing Economies
(2022)
This dissertation studies the historical causes and economic consequences of poor health -- an important component of human capital -- in developing countries, as well as the policies that can remedy its negative impacts. ...
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 ...