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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:  "Investigating Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use and Harm: Findings and Methods"

This dissertation consists of three chapters, each a separate paper, that taken together examine policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of tobacco use 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...

Ralph Lawton is a student in the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School. He was a Robertson Scholar at Duke University, graduating in 2020 with a BS in economics, and started medical school in 2021. After graduating, Ralph spent a year as an NBER...

Katarina Swanson holds a BA in Economics from Carleton College and an MSc in Health Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Following her graduation from Carleton, she spent three years at The Lewin Group working on the evaluation of the...

Dissertation Title:  "Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care"

The numerous studies of racial disparities in health services have not achieved consensus on the definition and method for measurement of disparities...

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:  "Political and Fiscal Forces in State Health Policy"

States play a crucial role in financing, administering, and delivering health services in the United States health care system. In recent years, state health policy has been the...

Dissertation Title： "Evaluating Infant Experience Under Medicaid Managed Care"

Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous shift of the Medicaid population into managed care, from less than 10% participating in 1990 to nearly 60% in 2001. This...

Dissertation Title:  "Effects of Insurance Coverage on Health Services, Outcomes, and Disparities among Adults with Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes"

Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program may have greater morbidity, requiring...