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Three Essays In Healthcare Economics And Policy Analysis, Tuyen Pham
Three Essays In Healthcare Economics And Policy Analysis, Tuyen Pham
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This dissertation research consists of three essays on healthcare economics and policy analysis. Chapter 1 investigates and explains the failure of a proposition on limiting dialysis clinic profits in California in 2018. The proposition would have required dialysis clinics to issue refunds to patients or their payers for revenue that exceeds 115% of the direct cost of treatment. In this chapter, a conceptual framework of how voters weigh costs and benefits is developed and two different empirical approaches, simple OLS and Double Post LASSO, are employed to identify key determinants of the voting outcome. The empirical results suggest that counties …
A Shock To The System: Analyzing Ethnocentric Populist Support Before And After Crises, Kyu Chul Shin
A Shock To The System: Analyzing Ethnocentric Populist Support Before And After Crises, Kyu Chul Shin
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Using the question of what is driving the support for populists in the mid-late 2010s in Western Europe and the United States as the starting point, this dissertation attempts to answer a number of different questions related to populists: Were the reasons behind support for populists in countries that saw an increase in support for populisms similar to those that saw a decrease in support? Are the reasons for supporting right-wing populists different from more general ethnocentric populists? Are the reasons that Americans supported Donald Trump similar or different from the reasons behind support for Western European populists? Following migration-related …