Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Dague, Laura"

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    • Analysis of Rural Hospital Acquisitions and Utilizations in Texas 
      Tian, Yao (2020-04-22)
      The main goal of this dissertation research is to explore the impacts of rural hospital acquisition on patients’ access to tertiary care and treatment patterns, as well as to predict the medical care utilization provided ...
    • Demand and Welfare in Health Economics 
      Hoffmann, Manuel (2020-04-16)
      In this dissertation I present three projects related to the topic demand and welfare in health economics by leveraging changes in technology, institutions and policies through quasi-experimental and experimental approaches. ...
    • Essays on Health and Public Economics 
      Zheng, Yiying (2017-07-20)
      This dissertation introduces three essays on health and public economics. In the first essay, I reexamine how false ID laws with scanner provisions affect underage drinking. Yoruk uses data from the National Longitudinal ...
    • Essays on the Determinants of Health and Labor Market Outcomes 
      Roberts, Adam (2022-04-20)
      There is increasing evidence that an individual’s experiences, setting, and resource access during early childhood and education years have a profound impact on productivity, income, and health in adulthood. Understanding ...
    • Essays on the Economics of Crime and Discrimination 
      Sloan, Carly Will (2020-03-16)
      My dissertation focuses on the decisions making of prosecutors, police officers, and judges. Understanding how these criminal justice actors affect crime and contribute to disparities is particularly important given the ...
    • Essays on the Economics of Reproductive Health Care 
      Pineda Torres, Mayra Belinda (2022-04-20)
      Reproductive health care is the ability to have a satisfying and safe sex life, the capability to reproduce, and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so. Access to reproductive health care has improved due ...
    • Essays on the Employment of Low-Income Workers 
      Witter, Joshua Spencer (2020-04-21)
      This dissertation introduces three essays about the employment of low-income workers, a group whose employment has large implications for economic growth, tax revenue, and government spending on means-tested transfer ...
    • Network Collaboration and Organizational Productivity Within a Regional Collective Impact Initiative 
      Muraleetharan, Daenuka (2020-04-03)
      Collective Impact (CI) emerged in recent years as a promising approach to address complex, community-level health and social issues. CI involves the commitment of multi-sector organizations to address a given issue using ...
    • Three Studies of the Communication Ecology of Advance Care Planning 
      Freytag, Jennifer Jeanene (2018-04-18)
      Using an ecological perspective, this dissertation focuses on personal and communicative factors affecting advance care planning. It situates and studies the process of advance care planning within three different contexts: ...