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: "Essays on Health Economics and Aging"
This dissertation includes three essays on health economics and the economics of aging. In chapter 1, I study how health insurance markets evolve with high-cost new medical innovation. Chapter 2...
Dissertation Title: "The Design of Public Health Insurance Programs and the Welfare of Low-Income Groups"
In the 1920s, health insurance in the United States was a fringe benefit covering only a few employee groups and limited to a few hospital benefits...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Economic Outcomes Over the Life-Course"
This dissertation studies how health and health policies impact economic outcomes like earnings, employment, disability application, and wealth accumulation throughout the...
Dissertation Title: “Place, Policy, and Health: Essays on the Intersection of Health Policy and Social Policy”
The social safety net is vital to supporting the wellbeing of many people in the United States, but it is complex. In this dissertation, I...
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 the Institutional Design of Health Care Markets"
The institutional design of health care markets directly impacts patients’ access, quality, and affordability of health care. Chapter one quantifies how patient-primary care...
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: "Essays on Social Insurance"
This dissertation consists of four chapters on the economics of social insurance programs.
In the first chapter, Bastian Ravesteijn and I study the consequences of employer cost sharing in disability...
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...