Dissertation Title："The Effect of Market Reforms and Ownership Choice on the Quality of Care in Hospitals"
This thesis explores how market reforms in the third party payer system and hospitals' choice of ownership status affect the quality of care in...
Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Medicare Policy"
This thesis includes three studies that further illuminate various aspects of a key political determinant of Medicare policy: public opinion.
For the first study, I use data provided by the Kaiser...
Dissertation Title: "Social Health Insurance and Saving in Taiwan; Health Insurance and Female Labor Supply; and Fertility and the Cost of Having a Child: Can the Government Influence Fertility Rate Through Incentives"
In this thesis, three important...
Dissertation Title: "Economic Analyses of Medicare HMOs"
My dissertation consists of three essays, all of which attempt to broaden our knowledge of the economic implications of managed care, particularly for the elderly, in the market for health insurance...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Long-Term Care Decision-Making Among the Elderly"
In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work...