Dissertation Title: "Essays on Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance Markets"
Pharmaceutical policy must balance two objectives: promoting new drug development and pricing drugs to ensure access. Though pharmaceutical innovation has made significant...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three chapters that relate to the following broad areas in health economics: care provision for vulnerable populations, challenges in efficient insurance market functioning and...
Dissertation Title: "A Dose of Competition & Side Effects of Prescription Limits"Drug spending in the US continues to rise year over year due to price and volume increases for existing drugs and the launch of new brand drugs. The US health system uses...
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: "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: "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: "Essays on Health Insurance Markets with Regulated Competition"
This dissertation explores three issues relating to health insurance markets with regulated competition. First, I study how switching between health plans affects enrollees...
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: "Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance"
The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs...
Dissertation Title: "The Political Economy of Mental Health Parity"
This thesis examines behavioral responses to parity regulation from the perspectives of the health plan, the consumer, and politicians and interest groups. Parity regulations aim to...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics"
This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical issues in health economics. The first essay considers the selection-efficiency trade-off in competitive health insurance markets, where insurers face...