Amitabh Chandra

Professor of Public Policy
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy
Office Address
Taubman-344
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 26
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-7356
Fax: 617-496-1722
Email: Amitabh_Chandra@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Gabriel Scheffler (617-496-3266)
Amitabh Chandra

Profile

Amitabh Chandra is an economist and a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on productivity and cost-growth in healthcare, racial disparities in healthcare, and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and Health Affairs. He is an editor of the Journal of Human Resources, Economics Letters, and the American Economic Journal. Professor Chandra has testified to the United States Senate, the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, and on National Public Radio. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute's International Dissertation Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research.


Courses

Spring

  • API-202-A Empirical Methods II
  • PED-318 The Economics of Health and Development

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Bollinger, Christopher R., and Amitabh Chandra. "Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data." Journal of Labor Economics 23.2 (April 2005): 235-257.
    • Barnato, Amber E., F. Lee Lucas, Douglas Staiger, David E. Wennberg, and Amitabh Chandra. "Hospital-Level Racial Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment and Outcomes." Medical Care 43.4 (April 2005): 308-319.
    • Chandra, Amitabh, Shantanu Nundy, and Seth A. Seabury. "The Growth Of Physician Medical Malpractice Payments: Evidence From The National Practitioner Data Bank." Health Affairs Web Exclusive 24 (Jan./Jun. 2005): 240-249.
    • Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums." The American Economic Review 95.2 (May 2005): 214-218.
    • Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors?" Regulation 28.3 (Fall 2005): 24-31.
    • Skinner, Jonathan, Amitabh Chandra, Douglas Staiger, Julie Lee, and Mark McClellan. "Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals That Disproportionately Treat Black Patients." Circulation 112.17 (October 2005): 2634-2641.
    • Chandra, Amitabh. "The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain." New England Journal of Medicine 354.5 (February 2, 2006): 529-530.
    • Baicker, Katherine and Amitabh Chandra. "The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums." Journal of Labor Economics 24.3 (July 2006): 609-634.
    • Baicker, Katherine, Kasey S. Buckles, and Amitabh Chandra. "Geographic Variation in the Appropriate Use of Cesarean Delivery." Heath Affairs Web Exclusive 25.5 (Sep./Oct. 2006): w355-w367.
    • Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Productivity Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks." Journal of Political Economy 115.1 (February 2007): 103-140.
    • Jha, Ashish K., Douglas O. Staiger, Lee Lucas, and Amitabh Chandra. "Do Race-Specific Models Explain Disparities in Treatments after Acute Myocardial Infarction?" American Heart Journal 153.5 (May 2007): 785-791.
    • Baicker, Katherine, Elliott S. Fisher, and Amitabh Chandra. "Malpractice Liability Costs and the Practice of Medicine in the Medicare Program." Health Affairs 26.3 (May/June 2007): 841-852.
    • Landrum, Mary Beth, Ellen R. Meara, Amitabh Chandra, Edward Guadagnoli, and Nancy L. Keating. "Is Spending More Always Wasteful? The Appropriateness of Care and Outcomes Among Colorectal Cancer Patients." Health Affairs 27.1 (January/February 2008): 159-168.
    • Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Myths and Misconceptions about Health Insurance." Health Affairs 27.6 (September/October 2008).