Episode 116: Crystal Yang
Crystal Yang
Crystal Yang is the Bennett Bosky Professor of Law at Harvard University.
Date: June 3, 2025
Episode Details:
In this episode, we discuss Prof. Yang’s research on the accreditation of jail-based health care.
“The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails” by Marcella Alsan and Crystal Yang.
OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:
“Impact of hospital accreditation on quality improvement in healthcare: A systematic review” by Mohammad J. Alhawajreh, Audrey S. Paterson, and William J. Jackson.
“Improvement in quality of hospital care during accreditation: A nationwide stepped-wedge study" by Søren Bie Bogh, Anne Mette Falstie-Jensen, Erik Hollnagel, René Holst, Jeffrey Braithwaite, and Søren Paaske Johnsen.
“Evaluating Accreditation” by Charles D. Shaw.
"Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility" by Elisa Jácome.
"In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk: Evidence from Medicaid" by Marguerite Burns and Laura Dague.
Probable Causation Episode 103: Marguerite Burns and Laura Dague.
"Access to health Care and Criminal Behavior: Evidence form the ACA Medicaid Expansions" by Jacob Vogler.
"The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Crime Reduction: Evidence from HIFA-Waiver Expansions" by Hefei Wen, Jason M. Hockenberry, and Janet R. Cummings.
“The Health Effects of Prison” by Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew J. Lindquist.
“The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality" by Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, and Jeffrey Weaver.