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: “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...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets"Chapter 1 studies hospital closure and the supply of healthcare in rural markets. Hospital closure can be welfare improving if it reallocates patients to more efficient facilities but can also...
Dissertation Title："Three Essays in Physician Behavior"
Physicians are the foundation of health care in the United States. Their decisions drive both spending and quality of care and it is their actions that will largely determine the success of efforts to...
Dissertation Title: “Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior”
Improving the quality of care is a major objective of health care systems, yet its determinants remain poorly understood. Across three quasi-experimental studies, this...
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...
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...
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: "Three Essays on Health Policy and Politics"
This thesis uses a combination of causal and descriptive designs, paired with economic and political science theory, to explore the feedback loop between health policies, health, and politics...
Dissertation Title: "Market Dynamics and Health Care for the Uninsured"
This dissertation investigates trends in health care for the uninsured and the role of market-level factors in determining their access to and use of care.
The first chapter considers...
Dissertation Title: "Competition, Regulation, and Entry Timing in Markets for Pharmaceutical Line Extensions"
This dissertation consists of three chapters on competition, regulation, and entry in markets for pharmaceutical line extension. Pharmaceutical...