Dissertation Title: "Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health"
This dissertation quantifies consumer preferences in the domain of health, examines the mechanisms underlying these preferences, and develops tools for policymakers and practitioners to...
Dissertation Title： "The Environmental and Safety Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickup Trucks"
The composition of the passenger vehicle fleet in the US has been undergoing a major change. Sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks...
Dissertation Title: "Empirical Approaches to Modeling HIV and Hepatitis C"
This thesis describes applications of mathematical models to three distinct problems. The common objective of the three papers was to take full advantage of all available data...
Dissertation Title: "Modeling Health Outcomes in Resource-limited Settings"
This dissertation presents methods for improving estimates of important health outcomes in resource-limited settings. Paper 1 develops a new approach to estimating health-state...
Dissertation Title: "Valuing Health for Public Policy"
This dissertation examines theoretical, empirical, and moral questions on the economic evaluation of health. Chapter One conducts an experiment to test whether willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce risk...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Value of Information Analysis in Health Risk Management"
Value of information (VOI) analysis is a decision analytic approach for evaluating the benefit of collecting additional information to reduce or eliminate uncertainty...
Dissertation Title: "Methods for Modeling and Valuing Life Expectancy Gains"
Over the past decade, there has been increasing concern over the inability of society to afford the growing number of health-related interventions. Decision-makers have turned...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Preferences for Health Risks"
This thesis considers different methods used to elicit individual preferences for health and safety issues in a series of three papers developed from an empirical analysis of a large national...