H.S.O.P. Job Market Candidates
Economics
- Betsy Cliff (PhD expected Summer, 2019)
- Zachary Levinson (PhD expected Spring, 2019)
- Ruoyan Sun (PhD expected Spring, 2019)
Decision Science and Operations Research
Sociology & Organizational Studies
Political Science
Betsy Cliff (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2019)
Contact Info: bqcliff@umich.edu Twitter: @betsyqcliff
Research Interests: Insurance benefit design, price transparency, consumer decision
making
- Dissertation Title: Changing Incentives and Information: How Demand-Side Strategies Affect Utilization and Price
- Dissertation Committee: Richard Hirth (Chair), Thomas Buchmueller, A. Mark Fendrick, Helen Levy
- Job Market Paper: Hitting a Bulls-eye?: Evidence of Spillovers in Efforts to Induce Using of Evidence-Based Preventive Services
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Zachary Levinson (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2019)
Contact Info: zmlevins@umich.edu
Research Interests: I am a health economist with a primary focus on researching the
efficiency and equity consequences of Medicare policy reforms. I also have more general
resarch experience and interest in health insurance, managed competition, access to
care, and health disparity topics.
- Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Managed Care and Dual Eligibles
- Dissertation Committee: Richard Hirth (co-Chair), Edward Norton (co-Chair), Thomas Buchmueller, Martha Bailey
- Job Market Paper: Dual Advantage or Twice the Burden? The Effect on Dual Eligibles of Providing Medicare Benefits Through Private Plans
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Sunny C. Lin (Ph.D. expected Summer, 2019)
Contact Info: sunnylin@umich.edu
Research Interests: My research focuses on the role of health information technology
in improving care coordination across the health delivery systems. I use novel analytic
approaches to understand how state and federal policies, community resources, and
payment incentives interact to influence health information technology use and patient
care. My dissertation examines the impact of alternative payment models on care coordination,
specifically its impact on health information exchange, patient sharing networks,
and patient experience of care transitions.
- Dissertation Title: The Impact of Alternative Payment Models on Inter-Ogranizational Care Coordination, the Role of Health Information Exchange and Patient Sharing Networks
- Dissertation Committee: Andrew Ryan (Chair), Julia Adler-Milstein, John Hollingsworth, Russell Funk, Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee
- Job Market Paper: Alternative Payment Models and Hospital Health Information Exchange
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Ruoyan Sun (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2019)
Contact Info: sunry@umich.edu
Research Interests: Agent-based modeling; complex systems; health economics; social
network; socially contagious behaviors
- Dissertation Title: Interaction between smoking and obesity: implication for public health policies
- Dissertation Committee: David Mendez (Chair), Carl Simon, Edward Norton, Katherine Bauer
- Job Market Paper: Evaluating the impact of tobacco policies on the obesity rate using agent-based models (tentative)
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Charley Willison (Ph.D. expected Spring, 2019)
Contact Info: cwilliso@umich.edu
Research Interests: Health politics; health policy; intergovernmental relations; social
determinants of health; housing as healthcare; health disparities; at-risk populations
- Dissertation Title: Down and Out in the United States: the Politics of Homelessness in U.S. Cities
- Dissertation Committee: Scott Greer (co-Chair), Holly Jarman (co-Chair), Nicolas Bagley, Rebecca Haffajee, Charles Shipan
- Job Market Paper: Housing as Healthcare: Understanding the Landscape in Policy and Practice
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