Dissertation Title： "Health Risk Behavior, Preferences and Policy"
This dissertation address health behavior in response to risk, and public preferences regarding risk. Health behavior is explored in two papers on the topic of child seating behavior in...
Dissertation Title： "The Environmental and Safety Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickup Trucks"
The composition of the passenger vehicle fleet in the US has been undergoing a major change. Sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks...
Dissertation Title："Patient Preferences and Economic Considerations in Treatment Decisions for Multiple Sclerosis"
This thesis explores the role of patient preferences in treatment decisions and in the cost-effectiveness of three treatments for patients...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Organ Allocation"
Unlike most goods and services, organs are distributed according to an administratively-determined point formula. This formula must balance competing goals, including the need to minimize organ...
Dissertation Title: "Methods for Modeling and Valuing Life Expectancy Gains"
Over the past decade, there has been increasing concern over the inability of society to afford the growing number of health-related interventions. Decision-makers have turned...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Preferences for Health Risks"
This thesis considers different methods used to elicit individual preferences for health and safety issues in a series of three papers developed from an empirical analysis of a large national...
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...