The first chapter of this dissertation replicates, re-specifies, and re-estimates Cardon and Hendel's 2001 RAND Journal of Economics article "Asymmetric Information in Health Insurance: Evidence from the National Medical Expenditure Survey." This article presented the first structural model to study adverse selection in the health insurance market—finding no evidence of informational asymmetries. I demonstrate, however, that after normalizing residual income, correcting an inconsistency in the construction of a health good, and accounting for corner solutions of the maximization problem, asymmetric information in fact exists in the health insurance market studied. The second chapter examines whether hospitals strategically choose to vertica...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation investigates how healthcare provider networks are formed and their effects on pati...
United States health spending grew dramatically over the last several decades, reaching approximatel...
The first chapter of this dissertation replicates, re-specifies, and re-estimates Cardon and Hendel'...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2014.Cataloged from ...
208 pagesThis dissertation consists of three essays in the field of health economics and industrial ...
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over ph...
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over ph...
Within the past decade, the U.S. health care market has undergone massive vertical integration, prom...
This dissertation applies economic, program evaluation, and machine learning tools to study producti...
This dissertation uses tools and models from labor economics to study two information problems in he...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation investigates how healthcare provider networks are formed and their effects on pati...
United States health spending grew dramatically over the last several decades, reaching approximatel...
The first chapter of this dissertation replicates, re-specifies, and re-estimates Cardon and Hendel'...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
The United States spends a larger percentage of GDP on healthcare than any other OECD nation, and ye...
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2014.Cataloged from ...
208 pagesThis dissertation consists of three essays in the field of health economics and industrial ...
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over ph...
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over ph...
Within the past decade, the U.S. health care market has undergone massive vertical integration, prom...
This dissertation applies economic, program evaluation, and machine learning tools to study producti...
This dissertation uses tools and models from labor economics to study two information problems in he...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation examines the welfare implications of vertical restraints in the U.S. health care m...
This dissertation investigates how healthcare provider networks are formed and their effects on pati...
United States health spending grew dramatically over the last several decades, reaching approximatel...