Dissertation Title: "Demographic Forecasting"
A number of important public policy decisions rest heavily on the ability to forecast certain cross-sectional time series. In this thesis we consider the task of forecasting time series of all causes and cause...
Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Managed Behavioral Carve-Outs on Quality of Depression Care"
This thesis consists of three empirical papers pertaining to the economics of mental health. The first paper examines the impact of managed behavioral health...
Dissertation Title: "Decision-Analytic Approaches to Evaluating Prevention Policy Alternatives"
To achieve population health given uncertainty and budgetary constraints, policymakers must choose between interventions. We apply decision science to inform...
Dissertation Title: "The Evolving Dynamics of Health Insurance under State and Federal Reform"
This dissertation consists of three papers on the implications of dynamic changes in health insurance and income for state and federal health care reform. The...
Dissertation Title: "Influencing Health Systems: Priorities, Policies, and Providers"
In my first paper, I explore the effects of donor financing for HIV/AIDS on health service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using disaggregated data on health...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Value of Information Analysis in Health Risk Management"
Value of information (VOI) analysis is a decision analytic approach for evaluating the benefit of collecting additional information to reduce or eliminate uncertainty...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Legal Interventions Designed to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes"
Relatively recent recognition of the significant burden of behavioral health disorders has elevated their status as public health issues in need of...
Dissertation Title: "Valuing Health for Public Policy"
This dissertation examines theoretical, empirical, and moral questions on the economic evaluation of health. Chapter One conducts an experiment to test whether willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce risk...
Dissertation Title: "Quality Improvement for Depression: Organizational and Provider Factors"
Improving the quality of depression treatment in the primary care setting is an important yet elusive goal. Few individuals with depression receive adequate...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding Variation in the Correlates of Health Care Satisfaction and Beliefs"
Public satisfaction and approval are important components of determining the performance, stability, and legitimacy of health systems. Meeting public...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Strategies for Achieving Global Collective Action on Transnational Health Threats and Social Inequalities"
This dissertation presents three studies that evaluate different strategies for addressing transnational health...
Dissertation Title: "Modeling Health Outcomes in Resource-limited Settings"
This dissertation presents methods for improving estimates of important health outcomes in resource-limited settings. Paper 1 develops a new approach to estimating health-state...