Christopher graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a bachelor's in statistics. As an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant for Professors Stefano Dellavigna and David Card on projects in behavioral firms and monopsonies in...
Marema Gaye graduated from Arizona State University in 2014 with a BS in Economics and a BA in Business with a concentration in Global Politics. She received her MA in Global Development Economics from Boston University in 2016. Previously, Marema worked...
Dissertation Title: "Firearms: Storage and Use at Home and Use in Suicides by Children"
Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people are killed with firearms, and many more are injured. The three papers which make up this dissertation...
Dissertation Title: "Risk Sharing in Managed Care"
Managed care continues to evolve in the pursuit of sustainable cost savings. In its early form, the industry relied on "command and control" mechanisms to influence physician practice style and reduce the...
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: "Obesity Policy and the Public"
Globally, obesity has reached epidemic proportions affecting more than 300 million adults. This dissertation focuses on adult obesity and uses several interdisciplinary methods to explore the...
Dissertation Title： "The Dynamics of Public and Private Health Insurance in the United States"
The dissertation considers the dynamics of three types of health insurance coverage – employer-provided plans, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance...
Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Medicaid Policy Change on People with Disabilities"
This dissertation uses causal inference methods to estimate the impact of Medicaid policy change on people with disabilities, looking at outcomes related to disability...