Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Payment Incentives, Benefit Design, and Provider Organization on the Value of Care"
This dissertation explores how the design of payment systems and changes in the organization of providers affect the value and delivery...
Haley Sullivan graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2016 with a BS in Neuroscience. After graduation, she spent two years as a fellow at the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics, where she conducted research on the ethics of...
Ye Shen is a PhD candidate in the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy (Decision Sciences). Her research spans two fields: 1) health decision science and 2) health services, outcomes, and policy research. At their intersection, Ye's core research agenda...
Dissertation title: Methods in Longitudinal Policy Evaluation
This dissertation consists of three essays on methods and applications in longitudinal health policy evaluation.
Chapter 1, A Matter of Timing: Effects of benefit distribution timing on...
Dissertation Title: “Hospital Responses to Changes in Incentives, Resources, and Demand”
At $1.4 trillion, US hospital spending is comparable to spending on national defense and K-12 education combined. The more populous EU spends less than half this sum...
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: "Informing Financial Investments in Health: Applications of Decision-Analytic Methods"In this dissertation, I use decision-analytic methods to investigate prospective financial allocation decisions in three health policy contexts...
Dissertation Title: "Risk and Sport: Individual, Institutional, and Ethical Considerations"
This dissertation applies tools from health services research to the college sports medicine context. The first two papers analyze a sample survey of college...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Policy Methods"
This dissertation includes 4 chapters on methods for health policy research.
In the first chapter, we discuss how many statistical models rely on assumptions that, when violated, threaten their...