Dissertation Title: "Economic Value of New Treatments for Depression"
This dissertation focuses on a number of important questions in health policy and health economics: What is the impact of illness on public programs and individuals working lives? What...
Dissertation Title： "Do Newer Prescription Drugs Pay for Themselves? Searching for Appropriate Empirical Methodologies"
Newer and more expensive drugs account for a large proportion of the recent rapid growth of prescription drug spending. However, if use...
Dissertation Title： "Essays on Consumer Behavior in Health Care"
Consumer use of information and whether consumers make decisions that are in their own best interest have important implications for the quality and efficiency of the health care system. This...
Dissertation Title: "Quality Improvement for Depression: Organizational and Provider Factors"
Improving the quality of depression treatment in the primary care setting is an important yet elusive goal. Few individuals with depression receive adequate...
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: "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: "Topics in Labor Markets, Health, and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance"
Three questions are examined. The first concerns the effect of minimum wage hikes on employer-sponsored health insurance. Low-skilled workers have limited...
Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Organ Allocation"
Unlike most goods and services, organs are distributed according to an administratively-determined point formula. This formula must balance competing goals, including the need to minimize organ...
Dissertation Title: "Political Determinants of Health Policy: The Roles of Public Opinion and Private Interests"
The political environment is a key factor in efforts to sustain and reform public programs serving low-income and elderly populations. These...
Dissertation Title: "Risk Selection in the Medicare Program"
Risk selection is a major impediment to the functioning of health insurance markets and a serious problem for those who seek to introduce more competition into the Medicare program. Ideally...
Dissertation Title： "Measuring Health and Assessing the Impact of Health System Change"
This thesis explores each of the steps in the process linking health system change to output: changes in access, changes in health, and the valuation of health.
The...