Andrew Bolibol graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 with his BA in Economics and his MA in Economics from NYU in 2020. After graduating, Andrew joined the University of Michigan (UM) as a Bridge to Doctorate Fellow working with Professors...
Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less"
New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...
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: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title："Optimizing Cardiovascular Disease Screening and Projection Efforts in the United States"
The objective of this dissertation is to develop and evaluate quantitative models that have the potential to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Payment Reform, Physician Compensation and the Clinical Workforce"
Chapter 1 studies the impact of the Medicaid Expansion on states' clinical workforce. Expansion states experienced health care and economic improvements...
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: "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: "Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation"
Health care spending growth challenges the budgets of governments, businesses, and families. In 2015, one in every six dollars spent in the U.S. economy was related to health care –...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics: Using Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Paper 1: The effect of price on demand and use of bednets: Evidence from a randomized experiment
An on-going debate currently exists about whether health products...
Dissertation Title: "Pressing Challenges in U.S. Health Policy: Polarization, Gun Violence, And Discrimination"
In this dissertation, I examine three pressing challenges in health policy in the United States: political polarization, gun violence, and...