Dissertation Title： "Forbidden Harms and Permissible Benefits: The Moral Status of Third Parties in Clinical Research"
The crux of this dissertation is the premise that third parties, non subjects, have moral status that ought to be recognized in the...
Dissertation Title："Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention"
New medical technologies have the potential to improve health outcomes substantially and cost-effectively, if used appropriately. This dissertation uses the...
Dissertation Title："Three Essays on the Effects of Health Shocks"
This dissertation examines the effects of health shocks on a variety of individual and household-level outcomes.
Chapter 1 attempts to estimate the causal effects of health shocks on...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Maternal Health Services: Characterizing Risks and Measuring Program and Policy Impacts"
This dissertation characterizes the relationship between two common perinatal conditions and measures effects of specific programs and...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Information, Competition and Quality in Health Care Provider Markets"
In the first chapter, I consider the welfare economics of firm entry when input supply is not perfectly elastic. Prior studies suggest that with...
Dissertation Title: "Influencing Health Systems: Priorities, Policies, and Providers"
In my first paper, I explore the effects of donor financing for HIV/AIDS on health service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using disaggregated data on health...