Dissertation Title： "Transformations in Health Policy: An Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Testing, Medicaid Enrollment, and Insurance Market Concentration"
This dissertation consists of three quantitative papers addressing contemporary issues in health...
Dissertation Title： "Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination"
In my dissertation, I integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team effectiveness literature to theorize how team scaffolds...
Dissertation Title："Quality-Based Payment in Health Care: Theory and Practice"
Quality-based payment in healthcare--also known as pay-for-performance--is a popular policy intervention aimed at improving healthcare quality. However, there has been little...
Dissertation Title："Essays in Ethics and Health Policy"
In 1999 New York enacted Kendra’s Law, in memory of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train by a man with untreated schizophrenia. Under Kendra’s Law a...
Dissertation Title: "Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Health Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation"
The objective of this dissertation is to examine to what extent individual-level or social network-level...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Health Policy Research: Evaluation of Universal Health Insurance and Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research"
This dissertation consists of two empirical papers and one methods paper. The first two papers use...
Dissertation Title: “Evaluating Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Policy and Regulation in Vulnerable Populations”
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether two different types of policy interventions in the United States are...
Dissertation Title: "Technological Innovation and Policy Responses in Health Care”
This dissertation consists of three papers, two quantitative and one mixed-methods. My first paper uses cross-sectional and logistic regression analyses of survey data to...