Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Economics and Aging"
This dissertation includes three essays on health economics and the economics of aging. In chapter 1, I study how health insurance markets evolve with high-cost new medical innovation. Chapter 2...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Social Insurance"
This dissertation consists of four chapters on the economics of social insurance programs.
In the first chapter, Bastian Ravesteijn and I study the consequences of employer cost sharing in disability...
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： "Patient Safety Challenges: An Inpatient, Outpatient and Patient Satisfaction Example"
This dissertation is composed of three separate studies that examined three different patient safety challenges.
In the first paper, "The safety of...
Dissertation Title： "Managed Care and the Changing Hospital Industry in the 1990s"
The first chapter examines the evidence for managed care plans' price bargaining with hospitals. The observed lower prices in managed care plans could be consistent with...
Dissertation Title: "Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives"
Mexico's innovative health reforms have attracted scholarly attention beyond its own borders, making it a valuable case to...
Dissertation Title: "Treatment for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder"
Treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children commands our attention because the disorder is the most commonly diagnosed and...
Dissertation Title: "Three Studies on Policies to Reduce Medicare Drug Spending"
This thesis consists of three related studies on policies to reduce prescription drug spending by Medicare beneficiaries. The policy context is the Medicare Prescription...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Disease in the Family and Managed Care"
The first papers examines how incidence of cancer within the family affects an individual's demand for health insurance and cancer screenings? This question is central to the debate...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Politics, Public Health Law, and Health Outcomes in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa"
This dissertation is comprised of three papers that examine the political dimensions of health policymaking and the relationship...
Dissertation Title: “Emergent Forces in Health Care Management: The Role of Patient Foundations and Digital Technology in Shaping New Product Development”
This dissertation investigates the role of emerging, external forces in shaping medical product...
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...