| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
|---|
| Empirical essays in health and human capital |
2011 |
2399 |
This dissertation studies two dynamic processes, the production of human capital and evolution of health. The first essay uses data on parents and their children in the longitudinal Panel Study of Income Dynamics and PSID-Child Development Supplement... |
| Three essays on economic influences for meal decisions |
2012 |
1194 |
This dissertation focuses on two relationships: how wages and the value of time influence the decisions to spend time preparing food and eating meals, and how government food subsidies affect the types of foods that children in a household eat. Altho... |
| Essays on health insurance coverage and food assistance programs |
2012 |
1158 |
Empirical work shows that health insurance coverage improves children's health and that healthier children have better educational and labor market outcomes. This suggests that the benefits of higher insurance rates among children go beyond improveme... |
| Do work incentives work? three essays on the impacts for physicians and welfare recipients |
2013 |
949 |
The three essays in this dissertation focus on the impacts of work incentives geared towards two very different segments of the labor market. The first essay, "Does Incentive Pay Alter Physician Effort? An Analysis of the Time and Treatment that Phys... |
| Three essays in health and nutrition economics |
2014 |
1151 |
This dissertation focuses on aspects of behavior and public policy related to vulnerable populations. The first essay, coauthored with Christian Gregory and David C. Ribar, reviews recent theory and empirical evidence regarding the effect of Suppleme... |