Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title: "Unpacking Dimensions of Performance in Healthcare Delivery"
In complex healthcare settings, the optimal choice of treatment can be highly ambiguous. As a consequence, the marginal patient may face radically different care depending...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets"Chapter 1 studies hospital closure and the supply of healthcare in rural markets. Hospital closure can be welfare improving if it reallocates patients to more efficient facilities but can also...
Dissertation Title: "To Whom? Essays on Health Resource Allocation in Organ Transplantation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings"
Under reasonable resource constraints, not all legitimate health needs can be met – necessitating some form of...
Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Medicaid and Insurance Coverage Expansion: Voters, Interest Groups, and Policy-Making"
Health insurance coverage and politics are intertwined. This dissertation will examine how voters respond when there are changes to...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Migrant Health Policies and Programs: From the Normative to the Positive"
As the population of migrants continues to grow, ensuring migrant health needs are met is a global-public health priority. This dissertation examines...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Payment Reform, Physician Compensation and the Clinical Workforce"
Chapter 1 studies the impact of the Medicaid Expansion on states' clinical workforce. Expansion states experienced health care and economic improvements...
Dissertation Title: "Prediction with Systematically Missing Data: Methods for Health Plan Payment and Cancer Stage Classification"
Missing data is a common barrier in health services research and has important implications for both health plan payment...