Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Managed Behavioral Carve-Outs on Quality of Depression Care"
This thesis consists of three empirical papers pertaining to the economics of mental health. The first paper examines the impact of managed behavioral health...
Dissertation Title: "Political and Fiscal Forces in State Health Policy"
States play a crucial role in financing, administering, and delivering health services in the United States health care system. In recent years, state health policy has been the...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors"
This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of...
Dissertation Title: "Chronic Illness, Depression, and the Patient-Provider Relationship: Toward a Model of Biopsychosocial Care"
Chronic medical conditions are the leading cause of disability in the United States, account for 70 percent of all deaths...
Dissertation Title: "Pharmaceutical Promotion in an Age of Consumerism"
This thesis examines the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) and traces the evolution of pharmaceutical promotion and its regulation by the Food and Drug Administration...
Dissertation Title: "Three Studies on Policies to Reduce Medicare Drug Spending"
This thesis consists of three related studies on policies to reduce prescription drug spending by Medicare beneficiaries. The policy context is the Medicare Prescription...
Dissertation Title: "Treatment for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder"
Treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children commands our attention because the disorder is the most commonly diagnosed and...
Dissertation Title: "Economic Value of New Treatments for Depression"
This dissertation focuses on a number of important questions in health policy and health economics: What is the impact of illness on public programs and individuals working lives? What...
Dissertation Title: "Measuring Productivity and Quality in Mental Health Care"The treatment of mental illness has undergone significant organizational and technological change in the past decade. Spending continued to grow at rates above changes in...
Dissertation Title: "Risk Selection in the Medicare Program"
Risk selection is a major impediment to the functioning of health insurance markets and a serious problem for those who seek to introduce more competition into the Medicare program. Ideally...