Dissertation Title: "Essays on Maternal Health"
This dissertation focuses on exploring the maternity episode and it's associations with healthcare use, healthcare spending, and social policies. The first chapter uses survey data and a difference-in...
Dissertation title: Methods in Longitudinal Policy Evaluation
This dissertation consists of three essays on methods and applications in longitudinal health policy evaluation.
Chapter 1, A Matter of Timing: Effects of benefit distribution timing on...
Dissertation Title: "Advancing Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Empirical Studies of Technologies, Policies, and Clinical Practices in the U.S. and Abroad"
While maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes have improved globally over the past couple decades...