H.S.O.P. Job Market Candidates
Economics
Decision Science and Operations Research
Organizational Studies
Political Science
Economics
Qing Zheng (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2018)
Contact Info: zhengq@umich.edu
Research Interests: Health economics, long-term care and aging, the role of ownership
of healthcare organizations, public reporting, health insurance, program evaluation,
global health policy
- Dissertation Title: Three essays in Health Economics
- Dissertation Committee: Richard A. Hirth (Chair), Edward C. Norton, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Francine Lafontaine
- Job Market Paper: Do better quality star ratings improve firms' financial performance? Evidence from the nursing home industry
- Student Profile
Decision Science and Operations Research
John Richardson (Ph.D. expected April, 2018)
Contact Info: jsrich@umich.edu
Research Interests: Mental health and substance abuse services and policies, Suicide
prevention, Grief support, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Mathematical modeling, Decision
science, Data mining
- Dissertation Title: “The silent burden following death: assessing the economic and health related impact of grief in the United States"
- Dissertation Committee: David Hutton (Co-Chair), Daniel Eisenberg (Co-Chair), Lisa Prosser, Cheryl King
- Student Profile
Organizational Studies
Dori Cross (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2017)
Contact Info: dacross@umich.edu
Research Interests: Provider use of health information technology, Health information
exchange, Care coordination and care transitions for complex patient populations, Team-based
care, Implementation science
Political Science
Phillip Singer (Ph.D. expected June, 2018)
Contact Info: pmsinger@umich.edu
Research Interests: Politics of healthcare, state health politics, federalism, health
reform, federal and state political institutions
- Dissertation Title: Medicaid Expansion and the States: Implementation, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
- Dissertation Committee: Scott L. Greer (Chair), Holly Jarman, Nicholas Bagley, Charles Ragin
- Student Profile
