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Social Contagion Of Mental Health: Evidence From College Roommates
(MIT PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-08)
From a policy standpoint, the spread of health conditions in social networks is important to quantify, because it implies externalities and possible market failures in the consumption of health interventions. Recent studies ...
Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented
(ElsevierWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Home health care expenditures were the fastest growing part of Medicare from 2001–2009, despite the implementation of prospective payment. Prior research has shown that home health agencies adopted two specific strategies ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three Essays in Applied Health Economics
(2021)
The US healthcare system faces numerous challenges. In this dissertation I study issues of access to care, healthcare costs, and responses to the opioid epidemic. I take an applied economic approach, using causal inference ...
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 ...
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. ...