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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 on the Economics of Consumerism in Health Policy
(2019)
Consumerism, the notion of giving people the ability and responsibility to make choices about cost and quality, is an increasingly popular strategy to contain health spending. Yet we lack robust knowledge about how recent ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2017)
My dissertation broadly relates to the low uptake of preventive health services in developing countries despite the services’ low cost and potential to avert subsequent catastrophic expenses. In the first two chapters, I ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...