This dissertation investigates the role of institutions in mitigating the effects of adverse shocks to health and how adverse shocks to health in turn, impact …
Prediction and causality are of significant importance in public health and epidemiology. Questions of interest related to predictive modeling include the screening for high risk …
Conventional narratives of the Republican Party's relationship to the welfare state emphasize the themes of retrenchment and devolution. My research reveals, on the contrary, the …
Traditional explanations of health system change have tended to focus on such factors as institutional configurations and provider power. I posit the potency of patients …
Despite the emphasis on municipalization and grassroots mobilization in much of the recent research on healthcare reform in Brazil, it is the choices made by …
This dissertation examines the effects of health care policy on access to health care and health outcomes, use of medical technology, and educational attainment. The …
This dissertation explores different topics on health economics. The first chapter quantifies the supply response of primary care physicians to a reimbursement bonus, the Physician …
This dissertation studies the incentives and consequences of public policies and behaviors through the lens and with the tools of frontier applied microeconomics. In the …
This study sought to identify and characterize Extreme Risk Protection Orders within the United States. We identified 21 jurisdictions with ERPO legislation (as of December …
Background: RI has invested in a robust primary care system. Recent analyses reveal large and increasing professional health care spending, which represents over 25% of …
This dissertation examines the influence of Medicare's reimbursement structure on the observed behavior of healthcare providers. Specifically, it studies how hospitals respond to Medicare's disjointed …
Objectives: Current literature has shown that experiences of undocumented or temporary immigration status are associated with negative health outcomes in the United States. Little knowledge …
The population of transmasculine and non-binary identified birthing parents is growing, but there is still very little research within anthropology and the larger health field …
Community health centers are nonprofit organizations that provide comprehensive, quality primary care services to low-income, medically underserved communities, 35% of whom were uninsured in 2013. …
