Dissertation Title: "Essays on Insurance Policy and Provider Choices"
This dissertation includes one essay on the role of reputation on patients' choice of providers, one on the effect of Medicaid expansion on hospital finances and strategy, and one...
Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
Dissertation Title: "Grey Matters: Political-Economic Analyses of Long-Term Care"
Chapter 1. Public financing of long-term care services and supports (LTC) has historically favored institutional over non-institutional care. However, since the passage of...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Maternal and Child Health Economics"
Overall, this dissertation studies important issues around the early years of our lives, both in developing and developed countries. With coauthors I first look at how maternity and...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Managed Competition in the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces"
This dissertation examines different economic principles as they relate to the outcomes of managed competition in insurance markets with a specific focus on the...
Dissertation Title: "Delivering across Boundaries: Social and Structural Features of Service Integration"
The ability to integrate services across settings and time is increasingly important for healthcare delivery organizations. This dissertation...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Policy Opportunities to Improve Health in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities"
In this dissertation, I examine three settings where public policies can influence population health: schools, neighborhoods, and...
Dissertation Title: "The Partial Teammate: Managing Informal Collaborations in Contemporary Health Care Teams"
Health care teams have been grown more complex and their boundaries less clear for decades, leaving much of care delivery to informal...
Dissertation Title: "Unintended Consequences: Empirical Studies of Continuity of Care and Financial Incentive Gaming in Primary Care"
Strengthening primary care is a priority for health systems globally. Policies intended to modernize primary care can...
Dissertation Title: "Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women: Assessing Patterns, Policy Impacts and Methods for Evaluation"
This dissertation includes two applied studies on health insurance coverage for pregnant women in the United States and one...