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Three Essays on Market Structure Variation and Labor Market Outcomes.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters focusing on market structure variations and labor market outcomes in the health care sector. Chapter 1 estimates the labor market outcomes--employment and wages--of two types ...
Implementation of Evidence-based Practice Within a Physician-led Quality Improvement Collaborative: A Multimethod Analysis of Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation.
(2015)
In this dissertation, I have reported on a multimethod study of the barriers and facilitators to implementation of imaging appropriateness criteria, an evidence-based practice to improve the use of imaging for prostate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...