Dissertation Title: "Essays on Criminal Health Law and Policy"
How does criminal law enforcement affect health? This dissertation addresses this question through three studies that employ mixed empirical methodologies. Using descriptive quantitative...
J. Wyatt Koma is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s Health Policy program, with a concentration in political analysis. Much of his current research agenda focuses on understanding how to improve access to health care and health outcomes for low-income Americans...
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: "To Whom? Essays on Health Resource Allocation in Organ Transplantation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings"
Under reasonable resource constraints, not all legitimate health needs can be met – necessitating some form of...
Dissertation Title： "Do Newer Prescription Drugs Pay for Themselves? Searching for Appropriate Empirical Methodologies"
Newer and more expensive drugs account for a large proportion of the recent rapid growth of prescription drug spending. However, if use...
Dissertation Title: "Selection in the Medicare Program"
This dissertation uses data from the Medicare Managed Care and Fee For Service versions of the Consumer Assessments of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) surveys to examine market, plan, and individual...
Dissertation Title："The Politics of Healthcare Quality"
Improving the quality of care provided by the U.S. healthcare system is an important societal goal. Policymakers who wish to operationalize this goal must navigate an increasingly polarized health...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Maternal Health Services: Characterizing Risks and Measuring Program and Policy Impacts"
This dissertation characterizes the relationship between two common perinatal conditions and measures effects of specific programs and...
Dissertation Title: "Competition, Regulation, and Entry Timing in Markets for Pharmaceutical Line Extensions"
This dissertation consists of three chapters on competition, regulation, and entry in markets for pharmaceutical line extension. Pharmaceutical...
Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Managed Behavioral Carve-Outs on Quality of Depression Care"
This thesis consists of three empirical papers pertaining to the economics of mental health. The first paper examines the impact of managed behavioral health...