Dr. Diana received his PhD in Health Services Organization and Research from Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include vertical integration and de-integration of IT services in health care delivery systems, across systems and geographic boundaries; transaction cost economics and strategic management theory; IS/IT management, outsourcing, and organization.
Dr. Lin received her PhD from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include topics in Industrial Organization, Health Economics, and Applied Econometrics. Her current research focuses on hospitals’ adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT). In her studies, she applies structural modeling to evaluate which IT systems hospitals use. She is also interested in how the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) impacts hospitals’ billing practices.
Dr. Gollu received his PhD in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He finished his BA and MA in Economics in Turkey. His main research interest is on economic and health outcomes of public health policies. His recent research focuses on labor supply effects of several policy changes under the Affordable Care Act. He is also interested in other public health topics; one of his studies is on the internet’s effect on patients’ mental health.
Research
Health Economics, Labor Economics, US Economic History
Education
PhD University of Arizona, 2013
MA University of Arizona, 2010
BS Brigham Young University, Idaho, 2008
Publications
Dr. Gollu received his PhD in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He finished his BA and MA in Economics in Turkey. His main research interest is on economic and health outcomes of public health policies. His recent research focuses on labor supply effects of several policy changes under the Affordable Care Act. He is also interested in other public health topics; one of his studies is on the internet’s effect on patients’ mental health.
Dr. Liu received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. His research interests are in environmental economics, economics of regulation, and political economics. His current research focuses on market-based environmental regulation, and the impact of transparency policies on the behavior of firms. He is also interested in using theories from behavioral economics to explain environmental behavior of firms and individuals.
Dr. Santillano joined the Education Research Alliance team after spending five years as a research economist at Mathematica Policy Research. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on the integration of immigrant students in public schools. He will present work on the relationship between school accountability policies and market-based education reforms.
Dr. Arce-Trigatti received her PhD in economics from the University of Houston in 2014. Her research interests broadly encompass public economics and labor economics, with a specialized interest in the economics of education. Her current research focuses on the relationship between state-level education policy and student outcomes. She is also interested in researching the economics of innovation with respect to education, as well as policies related to higher education.
Sean Higgins is a PhD Candidate at Tulane’s Department of Economics and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. His current research focuses on access to banking services for the poor in Mexico, where he spent the past academic year as a Fulbright Scholar and is launching a randomized control trial with the Mexican government to test various banking interventions for the poor.
Dr. Button researches in three areas. First, he researches discrimination in labor markets on the basis of age or disability. He is currently working on a field experiment to quantify how much discrimination older workers face, and what factors influence the amount of discrimination. He also studies the impact of employment non-discrimination laws on older or disabled workers. Second, Button studies how tax incentives for economic development affect where firms operate, using tax incentives for the film industry as a case study.
