Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title: "Grey Matters: Political-Economic Analyses of Long-Term Care"
Chapter 1. Public financing of long-term care services and supports (LTC) has historically favored institutional over non-institutional care. However, since the passage of...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Managed Competition in the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces"
This dissertation examines different economic principles as they relate to the outcomes of managed competition in insurance markets with a specific focus on the...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Policy Opportunities to Improve Health in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities"
In this dissertation, I examine three settings where public policies can influence population health: schools, neighborhoods, and...
Dissertation Title: "Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women: Assessing Patterns, Policy Impacts and Methods for Evaluation"
This dissertation includes two applied studies on health insurance coverage for pregnant women in the United States and one...
Dissertation Title: "Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation"
Health care spending growth challenges the budgets of governments, businesses, and families. In 2015, one in every six dollars spent in the U.S. economy was related to health care –...
Dissertation Title： "Effect of Depression on Diabetes and Cardiac Outcomes"
This dissertation is comprised of three papers that explore the relationship between depression and medical disorders, specifically diabetes and heart disease. Each paper focuses...
Dissertation Title： "Examining Methods Used to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions"
This dissertation examines methods used to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions in order to help decision...
Dissertation Title： "Forbidden Harms and Permissible Benefits: The Moral Status of Third Parties in Clinical Research"
The crux of this dissertation is the premise that third parties, non subjects, have moral status that ought to be recognized in the...
Dissertation Title： "Employment, Health Insurance, and Health Care for Vulnerable Populations: Early Retirees, Low-Income Adults, and Racial/Ethnic Minorities"
In the first paper, I examine the potential consequences of the recent decline in employer...