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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
Transportation in Transition: Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment of Automated, Electric, and Shared Mobility
(2021)
Emerging technologies in transportation, including vehicle automation, electrification, and shared mobility, are poised to transform the mobility paradigm, transportation markets, and travelers’ behavior in the coming ...
Labor Market Efficiency and Team Transactions in Major League Baseball
(2022)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate papers related to the player labor market and team decision making process in Major League Baseball (MLB).
The first paper focuses on the MLB labor market after the ...
Data-Driven Optimization in Revenue Management: Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Demand Learning
(2020)
This dissertation studies several problems in revenue management involving dynamic pricing, assortment selection, and their joint optimization, through demand learning. The setting in these problems is that customers’ ...
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 ...