Dissertation Title: "Competition and Regulation in Medicare Advantage"
This dissertation examines how managed competition functions in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program through three empirical studies. The first paper evaluates the causal effect of...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Economic Outcomes Over the Life-Course"
This dissertation studies how health and health policies impact economic outcomes like earnings, employment, disability application, and wealth accumulation throughout the...
Ralph Lawton is a student in the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School. He was a Robertson Scholar at Duke University, graduating in 2020 with a BS in economics, and started medical school in 2021. After graduating, Ralph spent a year as an NBER...
Katarina Swanson holds a BA in Economics from Carleton College and an MSc in Health Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Following her graduation from Carleton, she spent three years at The Lewin Group working on the evaluation of the...
Marema Gaye graduated from Arizona State University in 2014 with a BS in Economics and a BA in Business with a concentration in Global Politics. She received her MA in Global Development Economics from Boston University in 2016. Previously, Marema worked...
Dissertation Title: "Impacts of Social Policies on Health”
For my dissertation, I apply experimental and quasi-experimental methods to investigate how three social policy interventions influenced the demand for medical care and health. These policies are...
Dissertation Title: “Pride, Pressures, and Politics of Place: Essays on the Influence of Rurality and Geography on Group Identity, Health Care Access, and Health Communications”
Place matters. Where individuals reside has a substantial impact on their life...
Dissertation Title： "Evaluating Infant Experience Under Medicaid Managed Care"
Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous shift of the Medicaid population into managed care, from less than 10% participating in 1990 to nearly 60% in 2001. This...
Dissertation Title: "Effects of Insurance Coverage on Health Services, Outcomes, and Disparities among Adults with Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes"
Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program may have greater morbidity, requiring...
Dissertation Title: "Investigating Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use and Harm: Findings and Methods"
This dissertation consists of three chapters, each a separate paper, that taken together examine policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of tobacco use in...