Dissertation Title: "Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy"
This dissertation aims to identify effective policies to improve the process and service of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. It focuses...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Institutional Design of Health Care Markets"
The institutional design of health care markets directly impacts patients’ access, quality, and affordability of health care. Chapter one quantifies how patient-primary care...
Dissertation Title: "Risk-based Strategies for Population Screening and Disease Management"
The objective of this dissertation is to explore the tradeoffs of risk-based strategies to screen populations for disease and manage patients with abnormal test...
Dissertation Title: "Informing Financial Investments in Health: Applications of Decision-Analytic Methods"In this dissertation, I use decision-analytic methods to investigate prospective financial allocation decisions in three health policy contexts...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance Markets"
Pharmaceutical policy must balance two objectives: promoting new drug development and pricing drugs to ensure access. Though pharmaceutical innovation has made significant...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Determinants of Health and Human Capital"
Economic, environmental, and social factors influence population health and human capital development. Often these outcomes reflect past exposures that occurred earlier in life...
Dissertation Title: "On the Value of Biomedical Research and Medical Care"This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate the value of biomedical research and medical care.
Chapter 1 studies trends in biomedical research methods and...
Dissertation Title: "Ethical and Strategic Issues in Non-Profit Resource Management"
Most charitable non-profit organizations rely on third-party donors, rather than customers or taxed citizens, to contribute resources on a voluntary basis. This reliance...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Physician Behavior"
This dissertation comprises three chapters that study the behavioral economics of physician decision-making. All three chapters examine the common but high-risk clinical scenario of assessing patients in...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three chapters that relate to the following broad areas in health economics: care provision for vulnerable populations, challenges in efficient insurance market functioning and...