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Essays on Health Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on health economics. The first chapter attempts to offer evidence that consumers learn about the characteristics of their health insurance plans, using data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. A participation incentive payment was offered by the …
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ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS
… those that have implications for behavioral health. In the first and second chapters, I study the unintended consequences of public policies on behavioral health outcomes. In the last chapter, I study local access to mental health care providers on juvenile arrests. In the first chapter, I …
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Essays In Health Economics
<p>My dissertation consists of three essays in health economics. In the first essay, I use the matched data set constructed from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Consumer Finances for period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare …
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Essays on Health Economics
… makeup but underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain why even though US elderly are found to be more concerned with their health and more forward-looking than we would have concluded using a model which …
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Essays in Health Economics
… the State Inpatient Database (SID) provided by Healthcare Cost and Utilization Program (HCUP), I show that the NTAP program increases new medical procedure technology adoption in hospitals, which is mainly picked up by large hospitals, medical-school affiliated hospitals, and public hospitals. …
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Essays in Health Economics
<p>This dissertation is motivated by changes in health and labor policies of the United States that have occurred over the last two decades. It examines how these policies as well as public programs affect behavior and outcomes. These programs and policies have the potential to impact behavior …
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Essays in Health Economics
… power with food, bad goods, education, and health spending with OLS regression models. We find that the wife’s higher education level increases the probability of her sole bargaining power in food spending and of joint husband-wife decision-making in education and health spending. The share …
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Essays On Health Economics
The essays of this dissertation study the effect of alcohol advertising on individual drinking, alcohol firm advertising decisions, and the relationship between education and mortality. The first essay focuses on the possible effects of alcohol advertising on youth drinking. Researchers still …
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Essays on Health Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays on health economics. The first chapter provides empirical evidence on the impacts of government reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for …
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Essays on Health Economics
This dissertation explores the behavior of health care providers and consumers, with a focus on understanding how changes in health policies affect the efficiency and quality of care of health care systems. Chapter 1 evaluates the impact of a change in Medicare reimbursements for nursing wages on …
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Essays on Health Economics
… outcomes in Brazil. Both issues are related to Health Economics literature. Below are the abstracts for the respective chapters. Chapter 1. Water and Birth Weight: Evidence from a large scale program in the Brazilian Semiarid Region. This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-size water …
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Topics in health economics
… for roughly one third of all births. The economics literature has established that a significant part of this growth is the result of physician incentives rather than medical necessity. Increasingly, however, the medical literature is raising questions about possible correlations between …
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Essays in health economics
One of the main goals of public health insurance expansions is to increase access to health care services, but doing so may require providers to move to previously underserved areas. Whether and to what extent any such relocation occurs remains an open question. In the first essay, I study how …
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Essays on health economics
… has documented evidence that consumers in health insurance markets are inertial, or behave as though they face substantial switching costs in choosing a health insurance plan. I investigate whether the private firms that provide prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D exploit …
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Essays in Health Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on various health economics topics. The first chapter investigates how physicians respond to Medicare reimbursement rate changes. The Affordable Care Act increased reimbursements in four states differentially across physicians. I run a difference in difference …
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Essays in Health Economics
This dissertation comprises three essays in health economics. The first paper studies how imperfect electronic health record (EHR) system compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperability between …
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Essays On Health Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays in Health Economics relating to the recent challenges in the U.S. The first essay studies the impact of retirement on subsequent health and investigates the mediation effect of social network in the relationship between retirement and health. Findings …
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THREE ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS
This dissertation consists of three essays in health economics. The first chapter estimates changes in sexually transmitted disease rates for young adults in the United States following the Affordable Care Act’s dependent coverage mandate; a provision that allows dependents to remain covered under …
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Three Essays in Health Economics
… of three essays addressing different topics in health economics. The first essay investigates the impact of the great recession on hospital capital investment and how hospitals respond to offset the recession effect. The great recession may have made it difficult for hospitals to borrow thus …
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Three Essays on Health Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays on health economics. The first chapter evaluates the impacts of and behavioral responses to cost-sharing in population-based public cancer screening using Korea's National Cancer Screening Program (NCSP), which provides free stomach and breast cancer …
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