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Comparing cross‐country estimates of Lorenz curves using a Dirichlet distribution across estimators and datasets
(Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-04)
Anticipation, Tax Avoidance, and the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand
(Cambridge University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-01)
Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
How well do doctors know their patients? Evidence from a mandatory access prescription drug monitoring program
(Stata PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2020-09)
Many opioid control policies target the prescribing behavior of health care providers. In this paper, we study the first comprehensive state‐level policy requiring providers to access patients’ opioid history before making ...
Discipline‐centered post‐secondary science education research: Distinctive targets, challenges and opportunities
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Grune and Stratton, 2014-08)
Visualizing biological data in museums: Visitor learning with an interactive tree of life exhibit
(ACM PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-08)
In this study, we investigate museum visitor learning and engagement at an interactive visualization of an evolutionary tree of life consisting of over 70,000 species. The study was conducted at two natural history museums ...
Population health and the economy: Mortality and the Great Recession in Europe
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-12)
We analyze the evolution of mortality‐based health indicators in 27 European countries before and after the start of the Great Recession. We find that in the countries where the crisis has been particularly severe, mortality ...
Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2015-02)
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters‐in‐law ...
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 ...