Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Medicaid and Insurance Coverage Expansion: Voters, Interest Groups, and Policy-Making"
Health insurance coverage and politics are intertwined. This dissertation will examine how voters respond when there are changes to...
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...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on the regulation of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry”
Regulatory policy for pharmaceuticals seeks to balance high quality evidence generation with access. The papers in this dissertation interrogate this balance by focusing...
Dissertation Title: "Topics in Machine Learning for Health Services Research"
This dissertation explores topics where machine learning can be used to improve or expand the scope of health services research.
Chapter 1: This study demonstrates the viability...
Dissertation Title： "Do Newer Prescription Drugs Pay for Themselves? Searching for Appropriate Empirical Methodologies"
Newer and more expensive drugs account for a large proportion of the recent rapid growth of prescription drug spending. However, if use...
Dissertation Title： "Transformations in Health Policy: An Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Testing, Medicaid Enrollment, and Insurance Market Concentration"
This dissertation consists of three quantitative papers addressing contemporary issues in health...
Dissertation Title： "Measuring Health and Assessing the Impact of Health System Change"
This thesis explores each of the steps in the process linking health system change to output: changes in access, changes in health, and the valuation of health.
The...
Dissertation Title： "Three Essays on the Economics of Medical Devices"
Financial relationships between physicians and industry are vital to biomedical innovation, yet create the potential for conflicts of interest in medical practice.
In the first thesis...
Dissertation Title： "Essays on Consumer Behavior in Health Care"
Consumer use of information and whether consumers make decisions that are in their own best interest have important implications for the quality and efficiency of the health care system. This...
Dissertation Title： "Evaluating Infant Experience Under Medicaid Managed Care"
Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous shift of the Medicaid population into managed care, from less than 10% participating in 1990 to nearly 60% in 2001. This...