Dissertation Title: "Economics of Prescription Drugs: Innovation, Payment, and Prescribing"
The pharmaceutical industry is an important sector in U.S. healthcare, with prescription drug expenditures accounting for $467 billion (9% of health care...
Dissertation Title: "Place, Racism, and Place-based Policies: Essays on Structural Racism and Community-Level Health Inequities"
This three-paper dissertation explores the relationship between structural racism and neighborhood-level health inequities. The...
Dissertation Title: "Simulation of Policy Levers Across the Tuberculosis Care Cascade"
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to impose substantial mortality and morbidity, particularly among children, for whom diagnosis remains challenging, and among adults with...
Dissertation Title: "Health During Pregnancy: Essays on Access to Care, Preventing Adverse Outcomes, and Health System Structures"
This dissertation investigates how access to care, clinical guidelines, and health system design affect maternal health...
Dissertation Title: "Insights into the Fragmented US Health System through Simulation Modeling: Childhood Insurance, Care Utilization, and Outcomes"
Empirical analyses of insurance, care utilization, and health outcomes are often constrained by fragmented...
Dissertation Title: "Three Essays on Health Policy: Utilization, Policies, and Prices of Hospital Services"
How does policy influence the utilization, finances, and prices of hospitals in the United States? This dissertation addresses this question through...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Ownership, Supply, and Use in Medicare Home Health Care"
Chapter 1 – The Impacts of Privatization: Evidence from the Home Health Care Setting
In many sectors, privatization is pursued to improve efficiency but raises concerns...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Economics and Aging"
This dissertation includes three essays on health economics and the economics of aging. In chapter 1, I study how health insurance markets evolve with high-cost new medical innovation. Chapter 2...
Dissertation Title: "Distributional Causes and Consequences of Medical Innovation"
In this dissertation I examine how the benefits and costs of medical innovation are distributed across the population, identifying the channels through which inequality in...
Dissertation Title: "Competition and Regulation in Medicare Advantage"
This dissertation examines how managed competition functions in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program through three empirical studies. The first paper evaluates the causal effect of...