Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Economics of Health”
This dissertation consists of three essays on the economics of health.
Chapter 1: This paper studies the effects of shutting down prescribers, dispensers, and distributors that inappropriately handle...
Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Managed Competition in the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces"
This dissertation examines different economic principles as they relate to the outcomes of managed competition in insurance markets with a specific focus on the...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets"Chapter 1 studies hospital closure and the supply of healthcare in rural markets. Hospital closure can be welfare improving if it reallocates patients to more efficient facilities but can also...
Dissertation Title: "To Whom? Essays on Health Resource Allocation in Organ Transplantation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings"
Under reasonable resource constraints, not all legitimate health needs can be met – necessitating some form of...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Payment Reform, Physician Compensation and the Clinical Workforce"
Chapter 1 studies the impact of the Medicaid Expansion on states' clinical workforce. Expansion states experienced health care and economic improvements...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance Markets"
Pharmaceutical policy must balance two objectives: promoting new drug development and pricing drugs to ensure access. Though pharmaceutical innovation has made significant...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Determinants of Health and Human Capital"
Economic, environmental, and social factors influence population health and human capital development. Often these outcomes reflect past exposures that occurred earlier in life...
Dissertation Title: "Prediction with Systematically Missing Data: Methods for Health Plan Payment and Cancer Stage Classification"
Missing data is a common barrier in health services research and has important implications for both health plan payment...
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...