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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 ...
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 ...
Developing New Ventures and Markets for Social Innovations
(2023)
“Doing good while doing well” has gained significant attention among management and strategy scholars. However, social ventures and markets that provide social innovations in developing countries face challenges in achieving ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...