Dissertation Title: "Economics of Prescription Drugs: Innovation, Payment, and Prescribing"
The pharmaceutical industry is an important sector in U.S. healthcare, with prescription drug expenditures accounting for $467 billion (9% of health care...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Ownership, Supply, and Use in Medicare Home Health Care"
Chapter 1 – The Impacts of Privatization: Evidence from the Home Health Care Setting
In many sectors, privatization is pursued to improve efficiency but raises concerns...
Dissertation Title: "Competition and Regulation in Medicare Advantage"
This dissertation examines how managed competition functions in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program through three empirical studies. The first paper evaluates the causal effect of...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Regulation in Health Care Markets"
This dissertation consists of three chapters studying regulation of payer and provider health care markets.
The first chapter studies how the market definitions of the Affordable Care Act...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on resource allocation in public health care”
Governments play a massive role in financing health care, accounting for 60% of spending worldwide. Squeezed between rising costs of medical technology and aging populations, the...