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Essays On Education And Health Disparities, Min Jang
Essays On Education And Health Disparities, Min Jang
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis studies determinants of health and socioeconomic disparities in the US. Specifically, it focuses on the following factors: (1) public health insurance, (2) medical care, and (3) adolescent health. The first and second essays test whether access to public health insurance may be an effective tool in remedying disparities in medical access and health outcomes. The third essay examines the gap in educational attainment between students with disabilities and those without, and the evolution of the gap over time.The first essay examines the effect of Medicare Part D, a voluntary prescription drug program, on education-related disparities in mortality. It …
Essays On The Effects Of Public Health Insurance Policies On Health Care Utilization, Expenditure, And Well-Being, Tu Thi Cam Nguyen
Essays On The Effects Of Public Health Insurance Policies On Health Care Utilization, Expenditure, And Well-Being, Tu Thi Cam Nguyen
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation consists of essays on the causal impact of public health insurance policies in the United States. Three chapters investigate how Medicare program, Medicare Prescription coverage program, and the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion impact on health-related outcomes, health care expenditure, and food wellbeing.
Health Shocks, Labor Market Activities, And End-Of-Life Medical Expenses, Yuan Fang
Health Shocks, Labor Market Activities, And End-Of-Life Medical Expenses, Yuan Fang
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Health capital depletes with each additional health shock. The presence of health insurance may reduce out-of-pocket costs, and hence increase the demand for care following a shock. Also, death is the ultimate health outcome for an individual that follows periods of health morbidities and health shocks. Towards the end individual lives, the demand for and cost of health care increases tremendously, but these costs vary significantly across socio-demographic groups.
Essays On Income Inequality, Minority Health And Healthcare Spending, Rui Cheng
Essays On Income Inequality, Minority Health And Healthcare Spending, Rui Cheng
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This set of essays addresses issues related to income inequality, public healthcare supply and population health. Income inequality has been found to affect health in a number of studies. Using data from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey of adults in the United States, the first chapter of my dissertation studies the effect of state level and county level income inequality on health status and the pathway via public health spending. By using multiple imputation method applied to BRFSS income data, it derives synthetic Gini coefficient at state level and county level for each year from 2000 …
Essays On Health Insurance Reform, Brian James Fischer
Essays On Health Insurance Reform, Brian James Fischer
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Overlapping generations general equilibrium models are developed to study health insurance reforms in the U.S. The models share common features such as heterogeneity in health, medical expenditures, productivity, endogenous insurance decisions, and capture key aspects of the U.S. insurance system. Each model is calibrated to match the 2007 U.S. economy.