Browsing by Author "Chandra, Amitabh"

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    • Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? 

      Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh; Shepard, Mark (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)
      The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market ...

    • Association between Income and the Hippocampus 

      Hanson, Jamie L.; Chandra, Amitabh; Wolfe, Barbara Elizabeth; Pollak, Seth D. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of environmental stimuli, the quality of parenting behaviors, and the amount and type of stress experienced by a child affects brain and behavioral ...

    • Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology 

      Stern, Ariel Dora (2014-06-06)
      The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ...

    • Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care 

      Bynum, Julie P. W.; Fisher, Elliot S.; Yunjie, Song; Skinner, Jonathan; Chandra, Amitabh (American Public Health Association, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of ...

    • The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing 

      Pian, Julia; Chandra, Amitabh; Stern, Ariel (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2020-09)
      Emerging gene therapy and gene-editing technologies will have a growing impact on patient lives and health-care delivery. We analyzed a decade of data on clinical trials and venture capital investments to understand the ...

    • Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly 

      Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin (American Economic Association, 2009)
      In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public ...

    • Productivity Variation and Input Misallocation: Evidence from Hospitals 

      Chandra, Amitabh; Colla, Carrie H.; Skinner, Jonathan S. (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-08)
      There are widespread differences in total factor productivity across producers in the U.S. and around the world. To help explain these variations, we devise a general test for misallocation in input choices – the underuse ...

    • Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation 

      Chandra, Amitabh; Kao, Jennifer; Miller, Kathleen L.; Stern, Ariel (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-12)
      Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to ...

    • Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover 

      Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
      Much of the current debate about expanding health insurance coverage avoids addressing an uncomfortable trade-off: with a limited budget, making benefits more generous means being able to cover fewer people. Moreover, ...