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...
Ilana Salant is a 6th year PhD student in Health Policy and Economics at Harvard. She received her bachelor's degree in Economics from Barnard College in 2016. While attending Barnard, Ilana interned at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics...
Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Medicaid Policy Change on People with Disabilities"
This dissertation uses causal inference methods to estimate the impact of Medicaid policy change on people with disabilities, looking at outcomes related to disability...
Dissertation Title: “Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes”
Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility...
Dissertation Title: "Grey Matters: Political-Economic Analyses of Long-Term Care"
Chapter 1. Public financing of long-term care services and supports (LTC) has historically favored institutional over non-institutional care. However, since the passage of...
Dissertation Title: “Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse Populations”
My dissertation investigates the enhancement of value in post-acute care (PAC) within the U.S. healthcare system, focusing on the largest...
Dissertation Title: "Policy and Methods in Health Services Research"
This dissertation consists of two policy papers and one methods paper, all grounded in applied, empirical health-services research. The first two papers concern the influence of...