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...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets"Chapter 1 studies hospital closure and the supply of healthcare in rural markets. Hospital closure can be welfare improving if it reallocates patients to more efficient facilities but can also...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Physician Behavior"
This dissertation comprises three chapters that study the behavioral economics of physician decision-making. All three chapters examine the common but high-risk clinical scenario of assessing patients in...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three chapters that relate to the following broad areas in health economics: care provision for vulnerable populations, challenges in efficient insurance market functioning and...
Dissertation Title： "Variation in Quality and Costs of Care across Physicians and Its Determinants"
This dissertation evaluates one of the key determinants of health care quality and costs – practice patterns of physicians. A large body of literature has...
Dissertation Title: "Is Doing More, Doing Better? Basic versus Advanced Life Support Ambulances for Medical Emergencies"
Deficiencies in the quality of pre-hospital care constitute a serious public health problem that has largely been neglected by the...