Estimating the Impacts of Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions
Brent Fulton, Associate Director
Public Health
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring physician practices.
Role: The student will search for and summarize existing studies, and depending on skill level, do analyses and create tables/figures using excel (Google Sheets), and scrape websites for data.
The student's key learning outcome will be gaining a better understanding on how empirical research is conducted within health economics.
Qualifications: Required skills include the following: strong writing skills, proficiency in searching for literature (e.g., Google Scholar). Desirable but not essential skills include the following: background in U.S. healthcare system and health economics (e.g., taken PH150D and/or PH126/Econ157), Zotero reference software within Google docs, Excel/Google Sheets. Hours per week is about 8-10 (so you could select 6-8 or 9-11).
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: We will meet weekly for an hour over Zoom or at 2121 Berkeley Way in the new SPH building.
Related website: https://petris.org/
Related website: https://petris.org/