Dissertation Title: "Economic Analyses of Medicare HMOs"
My dissertation consists of three essays, all of which attempt to broaden our knowledge of the economic implications of managed care, particularly for the elderly, in the market for health insurance...
Dissertation Title: "The Political Economy of Mental Health Parity"
This thesis examines behavioral responses to parity regulation from the perspectives of the health plan, the consumer, and politicians and interest groups. Parity regulations aim to...
Dissertation Title: "Topics in Labor Markets, Health, and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance"
Three questions are examined. The first concerns the effect of minimum wage hikes on employer-sponsored health insurance. Low-skilled workers have limited...
Dissertation Title: "Firearms: Storage and Use at Home and Use in Suicides by Children"
Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people are killed with firearms, and many more are injured. The three papers which make up this dissertation...
Dissertation Title: "Examining Changes in Mental Health Care by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-1992 to 2001-2003"
Using data from the 1990-1992 National Comorbidity Survey (Time 1) and the 2001-2003 National Comorbidity Survey – Replication (Time 2), this...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Long-Term Care Decision-Making Among the Elderly"
In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work...
Dissertation Title: "Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance"
The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs...
Dissertation Title: "From Idea to Product - Translating Knowledge between the Lab and the Clinic"
Translating Inventions into Products: Inventors’ Educational Background And the Speed of Technology Licensing From Academic Medical Centers
The great leaps...
Dissertation Title: "Infectious Disease Policy in the Era of Antibiotic Drug Resistance: Decision Analytic and Historical Perspectives"
In the United States and abroad, infectious diseases constitute a significant public health problem. Costly new disease...
Dissertation Title: "The Use of Information Technology in US Health Care Delivery"
My dissertation examines a set of policy and management issues related to the use of information technology (IT) in US health care delivery. Health IT has received broad...