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Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Three Essays on Finance and Health Care Organizations.
(2013)
This dissertation includes three essays that examine the interactions between financial arrangements and product market outcomes in the health care industry theoretically and empirically. Integrating finance and health ...
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 ...
Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
Three Essays in Health Policy Evaluation.
(2014)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the effect of the introduction of Medicaid between 1966 and 1970 on infant and child mortality rates. I exploit the federal requirement that Medicaid cover all cash welfare ...
Ozone Alerts and Asthma Exacerbations: A Case Study of Dallas-Fort Worth 2000-2008.
(2010)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of public information about air quality (ozone alerts) in modifying the effects of air pollution on asthma exacerbations, using a range of measures that encompass varying ...
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 ...