Dissertation Title： "Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and around the World"
The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effects of policies and platforms for global surgical delivery on health, impoverishment, and inequity, and to determine how...
Dissertation Title："The Politics of Healthcare Quality"
Improving the quality of care provided by the U.S. healthcare system is an important societal goal. Policymakers who wish to operationalize this goal must navigate an increasingly polarized health...
Dissertation Title："Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics"
Imperfect information is a pervasive feature of health care markets. Therefore, measuring the quality and value of health care services may inform efforts to improve health...
Dissertation Title: "Is Doing More, Doing Better? Basic versus Advanced Life Support Ambulances for Medical Emergencies"
Deficiencies in the quality of pre-hospital care constitute a serious public health problem that has largely been neglected by the...
Dissertation Title："Conducting Social Network and Social Norm Research in Low-Resource Settings: Food Insecutiry, Depression, and HIV Testing in Rural Uganda"
This dissertation examines the role of social networks and social norms in health outcomes and...
Dissertation Title: "Competition and Selection in Health Insurance Markets"
Competition in US health insurance markets is low and has declined in recent years. Insufficient competition is often assumed to increase plan premiums or decrease benefit quality...
Dissertation Title: "Three Field Experiments on Incentives for Health Workers"
The economic study of incentives in firms has traditionally focused on one type of incentive—pecuniary—and one causal mechanism—the direct effect of incentives on effort...
Dissertation Title: "Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention"
This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Strategies for Achieving Global Collective Action on Transnational Health Threats and Social Inequalities"
This dissertation presents three studies that evaluate different strategies for addressing transnational health...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practive Guidelins and Insurance Coverage"
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and...