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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...