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Essays in Health Economics
Essays in Health Economics
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103211
- ISBN
- 9798315799863
- DDC
- 614
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Health Economics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 115 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Dranove, David.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation consist of three essays in the field of Health Economics. In the first essay I investigate the expansion of telehealth. Telehealth has transformed healthcare delivery in the United States in recent years. However, its growing use masks substantial geographic heterogeneity. This essay argues that differences in telehealth exposure during the pandemic's initial peak played a pivotal role in shaping this variation. Leveraging county-level shelter-in-place policies as a source of variation, this study employs an event study design to analyze telehealth use through the end of 2022. The findings reveal a lasting impact of these policies, with longer shelter-in-place durations associated with higher telehealth use more than two years after the conclusion of the policies. These results provide insights into the persistence of disparities in telehealth adoption.In the second essay, coauthored with Molly Schnell, we examine the impact of expanding pharmacists' scope of practice. Unintended pregnancies remain a major public health concern in the United States, driven in part by persistent disparities in contraceptive access. This essay analyzes state laws that authorize pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives (HCs), a policy aimed at reducing access barriers. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we estimate the effects of these laws on fertility and related health outcomes. We find that pharmacist prescribing is associated with a significant decline in birth rates, suggesting improved contraceptive access and greater reproductive autonomy, and it also has implications for other related outcomes.In the third essay, coauthored with Radhika Ramakrishnan, we examine the relationship between regional economic conditions and cause-specific mortality in Italy during the first half of the 20th century, a period marked by major medical advances and a broad decline in mortality. Using manually transcribed data on regional mortality by cause from 1901 to 1951, we analyze how regional GDP levels relate to mortality patterns. We find strong correlations between GDP and mortality for many causes of death, with the direction of the relationship varying by cause. Moreover, the strength of these correlations evolves over time, generally increasing over the period. To further investigate potential mechanisms, we also conduct a case study on the discovery and diffusion of Penicillin, exploring how access to this breakthrough treatment may have interacted with regional disparities.
- 일반주제명
- Public health
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- United States
- 키워드
- Telehealth
- 키워드
- Health economics
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0163.
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■650 4▼aPublic policy
■653 ▼aUnited States
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■653 ▼aHealth economics
■653 ▼aHormonal contraceptives
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■71020▼aNorthwestern University▼bEconomics.
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17357344▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
