Ellen Meara

Dissertation Title:  "Political and Fiscal Forces in State Health Policy"

States play a crucial role in financing, administering, and delivering health services in the United States health care system. In recent years, state health policy has been the...

Dissertation Title:  "Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care"

The numerous studies of racial disparities in health services have not achieved consensus on the definition and method for measurement of disparities...