Dissertation Title: "Essays on Insurance Policy and Provider Choices"
This dissertation includes one essay on the role of reputation on patients' choice of providers, one on the effect of Medicaid expansion on hospital finances and strategy, and one...
Disertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Regulation"
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the regulation of health care markets.
In the first chapter, I examine one widely-touted solution for reducing health care prices -- setting prices via...
Dissertation Title： "Employment, Health Insurance, and Health Care for Vulnerable Populations: Early Retirees, Low-Income Adults, and Racial/Ethnic Minorities"
In the first paper, I examine the potential consequences of the recent decline in employer...