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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 and racial disparities in healthcare. 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, the New England Journal of
Medicine, 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "The Consequences of the
Growth of Health Insurance Premiums." The American Economic
Review 95.2 (May 2005): 214-218.
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Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Defensive Medicine and
Disappearing Doctors?" Regulation 28.3 (Fall 2005): 24-31.
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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.
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Chandra, Amitabh. "The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain."
New England Journal of Medicine 354.5 (February 2, 2006):
529-530.
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Baicker, Katherine and Amitabh Chandra. "The Labor Market Effects
of Rising Health Insurance Premiums." Journal of Labor
Economics 24.3 (July 2006): 609-634.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Myths and Misconceptions
about Health Insurance." Health Affairs 27.6
(September/October 2008).