Dissertation Title: "Economic Value of New Treatments for Depression"
This dissertation focuses on a number of important questions in health policy and health economics: What is the impact of illness on public programs and individuals working lives? What...
Dissertation Title: "Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Emergency Transport, Inter-Hospital Transfer and Hospital Expansion Policies in Cardiac Care"
Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) yields better clinical outcomes than thrombolytic therapy (TT...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics: Using Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Paper 1: The effect of price on demand and use of bednets: Evidence from a randomized experiment
An on-going debate currently exists about whether health products...
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: "Risk Selection in the Medicare Program"
Risk selection is a major impediment to the functioning of health insurance markets and a serious problem for those who seek to introduce more competition into the Medicare program. Ideally...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Comparisons in Health Services Research"
Comparisons of service use and outcomes data across providers, across regions and over time are made to assess performance and to guide resource allocation in health care systems...
Dissertation Title: "The Diffusion of Medical Information in Hospitals, Patients and Physicians"
Medical advancement is caused by the accumulation and dissemination of new scientific information. Patient diagnosis, medical treatment and health outcomes...
Dissertation Title: "Quality Information and Quality Competition In the Managed Care Health Insurance Market"
This thesis explores three aspects of quality information and quality competition in the managed care health insurance market. In the first...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical issues in health economics. The first essay considers the selection-efficiency trade-off in competitive health insurance markets, where insurers face...
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...