Dissertation Title: "A Dose of Competition & Side Effects of Prescription Limits"Drug spending in the US continues to rise year over year due to price and volume increases for existing drugs and the launch of new brand drugs. The US health system uses...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Physician Behavior"
This dissertation comprises three chapters that study the behavioral economics of physician decision-making. All three chapters examine the common but high-risk clinical scenario of assessing patients in...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid"
Public health insurance programs in the United States are increasingly administered through the use of private managed care plans. Under this arrangement, private...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three chapters that relate to the following broad areas in health economics: care provision for vulnerable populations, challenges in efficient insurance market functioning and...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Insurance Markets with Regulated Competition"
This dissertation explores three issues relating to health insurance markets with regulated competition. First, I study how switching between health plans affects enrollees...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Mental Health Care Use and Outcomes among Individuals with Reduced Access to Care"
Many individuals in the United States do not have access to adequate health care. Reduced access to care contributes to physical and...
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： "Managed Care and the Changing Hospital Industry in the 1990s"
The first chapter examines the evidence for managed care plans' price bargaining with hospitals. The observed lower prices in managed care plans could be consistent with...
Dissertation Title： "How Does Managed Care Manage Care? Evidence from Public Insurance"
In the United States, the fraction of individuals with public insurance is growing and the policies and markets that serve them are changing. Over two-thirds of...