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 resource allocation in public health care”
Governments play a massive role in financing health care, accounting for 60% of spending worldwide. Squeezed between rising costs of medical technology and aging populations, the...
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: "Essays on Health Insurance: Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior"In this dissertation, I consider health insurance coverage in the United States from two perspectives. I open with a high-level analysis of trends in public opinion...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Access to Care and Health Outcomes in Public and Private Insurance"The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether changes in insurance coverage and provider decision making are associated with changes in the use...
Disertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Regulation"
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the regulation of health care markets.
In the first chapter, I examine one widely-touted solution for reducing health care prices -- setting prices via...
Dissertation Title: "Methods for Evaluating and Improving Plan Payment Risk Adjustment and Plan Defaults in Medicare Part D"
This dissertation develops new methods for evaluating and improving risk adjustment formulas used in health plan payment and...