Dissertation Title: "Essays on Ownership, Supply, and Use in Medicare Home Health Care"
Chapter 1 – The Impacts of Privatization: Evidence from the Home Health Care Setting
In many sectors, privatization is pursued to improve efficiency but raises concerns...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Economics and Aging"
This dissertation includes three essays on health economics and the economics of aging. In chapter 1, I study how health insurance markets evolve with high-cost new medical innovation. Chapter 2...
Dissertation Title: "Distributional Causes and Consequences of Medical Innovation"
In this dissertation I examine how the benefits and costs of medical innovation are distributed across the population, identifying the channels through which inequality in...
Dissertation Title: "Competition and Regulation in Medicare Advantage"
This dissertation examines how managed competition functions in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program through three empirical studies. The first paper evaluates the causal effect of...
Dissertation Title: "Countdown to 2030: Essays on Universal Health Coverage in Developing Countries"
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) bears a disproportionate share of the world’s health burden. Women and children remain two of the most critical target groups for...
Peter Wilschke graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2024 with BAs in Economics and Political Science. As an undergraduate, he spent a summer at the University of Chicago’s Leadership Alliance program where he studied the impact...
Taegan Mullane holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and government from Smith College. Following graduation, she was a research assistant on the microeconomics team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She then worked as a predoctoral...
Dissertation Title: "The Design of Public Health Insurance Programs and the Welfare of Low-Income Groups"
In the 1920s, health insurance in the United States was a fringe benefit covering only a few employee groups and limited to a few hospital benefits...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Economic Outcomes Over the Life-Course"
This dissertation studies how health and health policies impact economic outcomes like earnings, employment, disability application, and wealth accumulation throughout the...
Prianca Padmanabhan graduated from New York University in 2018 with a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. After working in industry for a few years, she received an MS in Applied Statistics from NYU in 2022. After graduating, Prianca joined...