Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practive Guidelins and Insurance Coverage"
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and...
Dissertation Title："Medicare Beneficiaries and Market Variations in Service Use, Quality of Care, and Plan Choice"
Paper 1 examined relationships between an area’s intensity of service use and patient experiences, complementing research that showed markets...
Dissertation Title: "Decision Making for Medical Innovations"
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate decision making related to medical innovations. Paper 1 uses micro-simulation modeling techniques to evaluate the potential benefits of the...
Dissertation Title: "Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Experiences of Infertility in the US"
Infertility is a common problem in the US, affecting approximately 1 in 8 couples of childbearing age, or over 7 million women nationwide. But...
Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title："Conflicts of Interest among Oncology Clinical Trial Investigators and among Patient Advocacy Organizations, and Patient Preferences and Health Care Disparities"
The first paper is entitled "Relationships Between Authorship Contributions...
Dissertation Title: "Dimensions of Disadvantage: Normative and Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Public Insurance on Low-Income Children and Families"
This dissertation considers some challenges to delivering effective and equitable health care to...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Quality and Access: Cancer Care Disparities, Composite Measure Development, and Geographic Variations in Electronic Health Record Adoption"
Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer care are well documented in the...
Dissertation Title： "Three Essays on the Economics of Medical Devices"
Financial relationships between physicians and industry are vital to biomedical innovation, yet create the potential for conflicts of interest in medical practice.
In the first thesis...
Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
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: "Implementation and Management of Information Technology in Health Care Delivery"Since the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the federal government has spent over $30 billion dollars in an effort to digitize the US health care...