Dissertation Title: "Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies"
This dissertation examines how crowdsourcing ideas, which opens up the opportunity to innovate, can engage employees to solve organizational problems. Across...
Dissertation Title: "Computational Epidemiology: Methods and Applications for Global Health"
In this dissertation I discuss the development and application of simulation-based approaches to major challenges in global health. I refer to this general...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Social Insurance"
This dissertation consists of four chapters on the economics of social insurance programs.
In the first chapter, Bastian Ravesteijn and I study the consequences of employer cost sharing in disability...
Dissertation Title: "A Dose of Competition & Side Effects of Prescription Limits"Drug spending in the US continues to rise year over year due to price and volume increases for existing drugs and the launch of new brand drugs. The US health system uses...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Regulation in Health Care Markets"
This dissertation consists of three chapters studying regulation of payer and provider health care markets.
The first chapter studies how the market definitions of the Affordable Care Act...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Adverse Selection and Access to Specialty Care in Medicaid"
Public health insurance programs in the United States are increasingly administered through the use of private managed care plans. Under this arrangement, private...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Policy Methods"
This dissertation includes 4 chapters on methods for health policy research.
In the first chapter, we discuss how many statistical models rely on assumptions that, when violated, threaten their...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Insurance Markets with Regulated Competition"
This dissertation explores three issues relating to health insurance markets with regulated competition. First, I study how switching between health plans affects enrollees...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Insurance: Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior"In this dissertation, I consider health insurance coverage in the United States from two perspectives. I open with a high-level analysis of trends in public opinion...
Dissertation Title: "The Patient Role in Health Care Service Delivery"Interdependence between patients and providers is increasing in health care service delivery. The drivers of this dynamic are manifold. Innovation in biomedicine has increased the...