Dissertation Title: "Longitudinal Methods for Investigating Pharmaceutical Advertising, Adherence and Prior Authorization Policies"
In this dissertation, I use longitudinal methods to investigate three pharmaceutical policy topics.
The first paper examines...
Dissertation Title: "The Promise and Peril of Using the Law to Promote Ethical Outcomes in Health and Healthcare"
NOTA: NOT A GOOD ACT FOR TISSUES TO FOLLOW The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984
(NOTA) articulates the U.S. federal policy for organ...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Organ Allocation"
Unlike most goods and services, organs are distributed according to an administratively-determined point formula. This formula must balance competing goals, including the need to minimize organ...
Dissertation Title: "The Evolving Dynamics of Health Insurance under State and Federal Reform"
This dissertation consists of three papers on the implications of dynamic changes in health insurance and income for state and federal health care reform. The...
Dissertation Title: "Demographic Forecasting"
A number of important public policy decisions rest heavily on the ability to forecast certain cross-sectional time series. In this thesis we consider the task of forecasting time series of all causes and cause...
Dissertation Title: "Three Studies on Policies to Reduce Medicare Drug Spending"
This thesis consists of three related studies on policies to reduce prescription drug spending by Medicare beneficiaries. The policy context is the Medicare Prescription...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practive Guidelins and Insurance Coverage"
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and...
Dissertation Title: “Evaluating Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Policy and Regulation in Vulnerable Populations”
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether two different types of policy interventions in the United States are...
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...