Dissertation Title: "Economics of Prescription Drugs: Innovation, Payment, and Prescribing"
The pharmaceutical industry is an important sector in U.S. healthcare, with prescription drug expenditures accounting for $467 billion (9% of health care...
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: "Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health"
This dissertation quantifies consumer preferences in the domain of health, examines the mechanisms underlying these preferences, and develops tools for policymakers and practitioners to...
Connie Xu received her bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Statistics from the University of Chicago in 2019. Following graduation, she worked as a pre-doctoral research fellow for Professor Amy Finkelstein at MIT where she contributed to projects...
Dissertation Title: “Emergent Forces in Health Care Management: The Role of Patient Foundations and Digital Technology in Shaping New Product Development”
This dissertation investigates the role of emerging, external forces in shaping medical product...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets
Chapter 1: National trends in integration between medical practices and pharmacies for self-administered drugs from 2011 to 2019
Physician practices and health systems are increasingly launching...
Dissertation Title: "Influencing Health Systems: Priorities, Policies, and Providers"
In my first paper, I explore the effects of donor financing for HIV/AIDS on health service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using disaggregated data on health...
Dissertation Title: "Promoting Value Through Health Insurance Design: Empirical and Normative Assessments"
Chapter 1. The Effect of a Large Regional Health Plan’s Value-Based Insurance Design Program on Statin Use.
My first chapter examines a value-based...
Dissertation Title: "Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance"
The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs...