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: "Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care"
This dissertation investigates drivers of variation in health care utilization and quality, with a focus on physician...
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: "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: "Essays on Criminal Health Law and Policy"
How does criminal law enforcement affect health? This dissertation addresses this question through three studies that employ mixed empirical methodologies. Using descriptive quantitative...
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: “Evaluating Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Policy and Regulation in Vulnerable Populations”
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether two different types of policy interventions in the United States are...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health"
This dissertation quantifies consumer preferences in the domain of health, examines the mechanisms underlying these preferences, and develops tools for policymakers and practitioners to...
Dissertation Title: "Computational Epidemiology: Methods and Applications for Global Health"
In this dissertation I discuss the development and application of simulation-based approaches to major challenges in global health. I refer to this general...
Dissertation Title: "Examining Health and Economic Outcomes Associated with Pediatric Medical Conditions in the United States"
The objective of this dissertation is to estimate the health and economic outcomes associated with two prominent child health...