Dissertation Title: "Insights into the Fragmented US Health System through Simulation Modeling: Childhood Insurance, Care Utilization, and Outcomes"
Empirical analyses of insurance, care utilization, and health outcomes are often constrained by fragmented...
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...
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...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating State-Driven Changes to the Medicaid Program: Unintended, Intended, and Methodological Implications"
This dissertation consists of two empirical policy papers and one methods paper. All three papers examine the effect of...