Dissertation title: "Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care"
This dissertation investigates drivers of variation in health care utilization and quality, with a focus on physician...
Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Medicaid Policy Change on People with Disabilities"
This dissertation uses causal inference methods to estimate the impact of Medicaid policy change on people with disabilities, looking at outcomes related to disability...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies"
In the United States, the path from having a medical condition to receiving medical care for that...
Dissertation Title: “Place, Policy, and Health: Essays on the Intersection of Health Policy and Social Policy”
The social safety net is vital to supporting the wellbeing of many people in the United States, but it is complex. In this dissertation, I...
Dissertation Title: "Impacts of Social Policies on Health”
For my dissertation, I apply experimental and quasi-experimental methods to investigate how three social policy interventions influenced the demand for medical care and health. These policies are...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Maternal Health"
This dissertation focuses on exploring the maternity episode and it's associations with healthcare use, healthcare spending, and social policies. The first chapter uses survey data and a difference-in...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Decision Analytic Modeling for Hypertension and Frailty"
This dissertation uses decision analytic modeling to evaluate two clinical conditions prevalent in the United States: hypertension and frailty. In the first chapter, I...
Dissertation title: Methods in Longitudinal Policy Evaluation
This dissertation consists of three essays on methods and applications in longitudinal health policy evaluation.
Chapter 1, A Matter of Timing: Effects of benefit distribution timing on...
Dissertation title: "Enhancing Health Policy Decisions in Diseases Affecting Disadvantaged Populations: Applied and Methodological Analyses"
In this dissertation, I employed three different analytic lenses to help improve health policy decisions. Each...
Dissertation Title: “Hospital Responses to Changes in Incentives, Resources, and Demand”
At $1.4 trillion, US hospital spending is comparable to spending on national defense and K-12 education combined. The more populous EU spends less than half this sum...