Methods for Policy Research

Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Payment Incentives, Benefit Design, and Provider Organization on the Value of Care"

This dissertation explores how the design of payment systems and changes in the organization of providers affect the value and delivery...

Dissertation Title: "Care Delivery in Nursing Homes: The Role of Quality, Insurance, and Specialty Clinicians"

This dissertation describes three papers evaluating factors which contribute to the care and wellbeing of nursing home residents. Taken together...

Dissertation Title: "Advancing Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Empirical Studies of Technologies, Policies, and Clinical Practices in the U.S. and Abroad"

While maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes have improved globally over the past couple decades...

Daniel graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Computer Science, receiving the Sir Frank Holmes Prize for the top undergraduate economist in New Zealand. After graduating, he joined Sapere Research...

Kacey graduated from Yale College in 2019 with degrees in Cognitive Science and History. With the support of a Yale postgraduate fellowship, she conducted qualitative research on lived experiences of depression and suicidal behavior among psychiatric...

Nadia Bell graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2019 with a B.A. in Statistics with distinction. While at Berkeley, she served as a research assistant at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Since 2019, Nadia has worked at Mathematica as a...

Britainy Barnes received her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 2019. While attending Stanford, Britainy was a Gates Millennium Scholar, an Alumni Award of Excellence recipient, and a research assistant at the Language Learning Lab. Following...