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| Amitabh Chandra
October 2020, Paper: "We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks – a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white…
| Amitabh Chandra
August 26, 2020, Paper: "In 2019, the Hahnemann Medical Center, a safety net hospital in Philadelphia, declared bankruptcy and a consortium of hospitals submitted a winning bid of $55 million for 550 government-funded residency slots. The auction challenges the narrative of teaching hospitals that training residents is a money-losing proposition and provides an opportunity to rethink the role of public financing of graduate medical education (…
| Amitabh Chandra
August 2020, Paper: "Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects one in ten people aged 65 or older and is the most expensive disease in the United States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer’s Disease’ is an emphasis on cognitive decline, choice by cognitively impaired patients, and a host of issues where dynamic contracts between…
| Amitabh Chandra
August 7, 2020, Paper: "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and Paycheck Protection Program together designated $175 billion for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response efforts and reimbursement to health care entities for expenses or lost revenues.1 The most important factor driving funding…
| Amitabh Chandra
A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work. Amitabh Chandra, April 1, 2020, Opinion, "Millions of Americans — especially those who have been most impoverished by the forced shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic — want to return to work. But with the Trump administration now urging Americans to stay at home until May 1 and the likelihood that a vaccine against the disease won’t be widely available for 12 to 18 months, how can we safely…
| Amitabh Chandra
Trickle-down innovation and the longevity of nations. Amitabh Chandra, June 1, 2019, Paper, "The association between income and life expectancy is so robust and persistent across countries that it has a name, the Preston Curve, named after the economist who first described it. 1 The strength of the association begs the question: must citizens of poorer countries wait for their economies to grow before they can expect to enjoy the life…
| Amitabh Chandra
Tyler Cowen and Amitabh Chandra on economics of health care. Amitabh Chandra, June 12, 2018, Audio, "Two prominent economists share their views on the politics, economics and ethics of health care reform. Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University and the Center for the Study of Public Choice and has earned numerous accolades, including being named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. He is also one of The Economist'…
| Amitabh Chandra
Policy Strategies For Aligning Price And Value For Brand-Name Pharmaceuticals. Amitabh Chandra, February 16, 2018, Paper, "Systemic factors in the US health care system lead to greater pricing power for drug manufacturers than is the case in other countries. The result is higher prices that are often poorly aligned with the degree of added benefit for patients and the health system. To achieve the difficult balance between necessary incentives…
| Amitabh Chandra
Challenges To Reducing Discrimination And Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws. Amitabh Chandra, June 2017, Paper, "More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, health care for racial and ethnic minorities remains in many ways separate and unequal in the United States. Moreover, efforts to improve minority health care face challenges that differ from those confronted during de jure segregation. We review…
| Amitabh Chandra
Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector. Amitabh Chandra, October 1, 2015, Paper. “The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers. However, we find robust evidence across a variety of conditions and performance measures that higher quality hospitals tend to…