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Amitabh Chandra Address John F. Kennedy School of Government ✆Office : 617.496.7356 Harvard University ✆ NBER : 617.588.1454 79 JFK Street ✆ Mobile: 617.645.3611 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 E-mail: [email protected] Education BA Economics, University of Kentucky, 1996 Ph.D. Economics, University of Kentucky, 2000 Dissertation: Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap, 1940-1990 Research Fields: Labor Economics and Health Economics Current Research: Racial Disparities in Health Care Medical Malpractice and Defensive Medicine Technology and Productivity in Health Care Employment July 2005 – present: Assistant Professor of Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University July 2004 – present: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College July 2002 – June 2003: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Economics, MIT July 2000 – June 2005: Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth June 1999 – June 2001: Consultant RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Affiliations July 2003 - present: Co-Editor and Associate Editor. Economics Letters (Elsevier Science) July 2004 - present: Editorial Board Forum in Health Economics and Policy (Berkeley Electronic Press) April 2002 - present: Faculty Research Fellow National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) January 2002 - present: Research Fellow Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany 1/8 Publications 1. “Profiling Workers for Unemployment Insurance,” in David D. Balducchi (Ed.). Worker Pro- filing and Reemployment Services Systems. U.S. Department of Labor, 1997, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office), with Mark C. Berger and Dan A. Black. 2. “Taxes and the Timing of Births,” Journal of Political Economy 107(1), February 1999, with Stacy Dickert-Conlin. 3. “Health Insurance Coverage of the Unemployed: COBRA and the Potential Effects of Kassebaum-Kennedy,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 18(3), Summer 1999, with Mark C. Berger, Dan A. Black and Frank A. Scott. 4. “Does Public Infrastructure Affect Economic Activity? Evidence from the Interstate High- way System” with Eric Thompson, Regional Science and Urban Economics 30(4), July 2000. 5. “Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 89(2), May 2000. 6. “Children, Nondiscriminatory Provision of Fringe Benefits, and Household Labor Market Decisions,” Research in Labor Economics 22(1), 2003, with Mark C. Berger, Dan A. Black, and Frank A. Scott. 7. “Geography and Racial Health Disparities,” in Norman B. Anderson, Rodolfo A. Bulatao and Barney Cohen (Eds). Critical Perspectives: on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life, National Research Council 2004 (The National Academies Press: Washington D.C.), with Jonathan Skinner. 8. “Medicare Spending, the Physician Workforce, and the Quality of Care Received by Medi- care Beneficiaries,” Health Affairs April 2004 , with Katherine Baicker. 9. “The Productivity of Physician Specialization,” American Economic Review, Papers and Pro- ceedings 93(2), May 2004, with Katherine Baicker. 10. “Who You Are and Where You Live: How Race and Geography Affect the Treatment of Medicare Beneficiaries” Health Affairs October 2004, with Katherine Baicker, Jonathan Skinner and John E. Wennberg. 11. “Geographic Variation and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities in Health Care,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48(1) 2005, with Katherine Baicker and Jonathan Skinner. 12. “The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care” in David M. Cutler and Alan M. Garber (Eds.) Frontiers of Health Policy Research Vol 8, 2005, with Katherine Baicker. 13. “Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data,” Journal of Labor Eco- nomics, April 2005, with Christopher Bollinger. 14. “Hospital-level Racial Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment and Outcomes,” Medical Care 43(4), April 2005, with Amber Barnato, Lee Lucas, Douglas Staiger and David Wennberg 15. “The Effect of Rising Health Insurance Premiums on Labor Markets,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 94(2), May 2005, with Katherine Baicker. 2/8 16. “The Growth of Physician Malpractice Payments: Evidence from the National Practitioner Data Bank,” Health Affairs April 2005, with Shantanu Nundy and Seth A. Seabury. 17. “Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals that Disproportionately Treat Afri- can Americans,” Circulation, October 25th 2005, with Jonathan Skinner, Douglas Staiger, Julie Lee, and Mark McClellan. 18. “Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors?” Regulation 28(3) Fall 2005, with Katherine Baicker. 19. “Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance,” in David Culter and David Wise (Editors), Health In Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly. University of Chicago Press, 2006, with Andrew Samwick. 20. “The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums,” Journal of Labor Eco- nomics July 2006, with Katherine Baicker. 21. “Geographic Variation in the Appropriate Use of Cesarean Delivery” Health Affairs August 8 2006, with Katherine Baicker and Kasey S. Buckles. 22. “Medical Malpractice Liability and the Practice of Medicine in the Medicare Program,” forthcoming in Health Affairs, with Katherine Baicker and Elliott Fisher. 23. “Differences in Neonatal Mortality among Whites and Asian American Subgroups: Evidence from California,” forthcoming Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, with Laurence Baker, Chris Afendulis, Ciaran Phibbs, Shannon McConville and Elena Fuentes- Afflick. 24. “Do Race Specific Models Explain Disparities in Treatments after Acute Myocardial Infarc- tion?” forthcoming in the American Journal of Cardiology, with Ashish Jha, Lee Lucas, and Douglas Staiger. 25. “Productivity Spillovers in Healthcare: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks,” Journal of Political Economy. February 2007, with Douglas Staiger. Comments 26. “Consequences of Selling a Kidney in India,” Journal of the American Medical Association 289, 2003. 27. “ The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain” New England Journal of Medicine 354, February 2, 2006. 28. “Health and Well-being in Udaipur and South Africa,” by Angus Deaton and Anne Case, in David A. Wise (Editor). The Economics of Aging, forthcoming. 3/8 Completed Papers 1. “Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?” NBER w9476. 2. “Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets and Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly,” with Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight. 3. “Precautionary Saving and the Value of Disability Insurance,” with Andrew Samwick. 4. “Projected Savings in Malpractice Premiums from Reducing Malpractice Liability,” with Seth Seabury, Eric Hellland, and Dana Goldman. 5. “Quality of Colorectal Cancer Care and Mortality for Medicare Beneficiaries in Areas with High End-of-Life Care Spending,” with Mary Beth Landrum, Ellen Meara, Edward Gua- danoli, and Nancy Keating. Current Projects 6. “The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Health Care,” with Douglas Staiger. 7. “Technology Growth in Healthcare and the Rise of Healthcare Expenditures,” with Jonathan S. Skinner. 8. “US Immigration Policy and the Skill Quality of Immigrants,” with Alexis Leon. 9. “Quality of Care for Newborns in Hospitals that Disproportionately Serve African Ameri- cans,” with Loren Baker, Ciaran Phibbs, and Christopher Afendulis. 10. “Does Medicare Redistribute Health?” with Darius Lakdawalla. 11. “Quantile Treatment Effects with Censored Outcomes: Evidence from the Treatment of Heartattacks” with Konrad Menzel. Articles and Reports 12. “The Economic Well Being of Women in Kentucky” in Michal Smith-Mello and Michael T. Childress (Eds.) The Future Well-Being of Women, 1999, with Mark C. Berger 13. “The Retirement Behavior of Kentucky Families,” 1998 CBER Annual Economic Report, with Dan A. Black 14. “The Economic Impact of Highway Construction,” 1998 CBER Annual Economic Report, with Eric E. Thompson 15. “Profiling Workers for Unemployment Insurance in Kentucky,” Kentucky Journal of Business and Economics, with Steven Allen, Mark C. Berger and Dan A. Black 16. “More Efficient Financing of Higher Education: The Case for Tuition Increases,” 1997 CBER Annual Economic Report, with Dan A. Black 17. “Income Inequality in Kentucky,” in Michael T. Childress, Billie Sebastian, and Peter Schirmer (Eds.) Exploring the Frontier of the Future, 1996. 4/8 18. “Chasing Smokestacks: An Analysis of Economic Development Incentives,” 1996 CBER An- nual Economic Report, with Dan A. Black 19. “Are We Watching Grass Grow? An Economic Analysis of Income Inequality in Kentucky,” 1995 CBER Annual Economic Report 20. “Uneven Tides: Regional Differences in Economic Growth,” 1995 CBER Annual Economic Re- port, with Mark C. Berger and Dan A. Black Presentations 1. U.S. Dept. of Labor Conference on Profiling Workers for UI , Atlanta GA— June 1996 2. Econometric Society Winter Meetings, New Orleans LA—January 1997 3. Econometric Society Winter Meetings, Chicago IL—January 1998 4. RAND Corporation—August 1999 5. APPAM Annual Research Meetings, Washington DC—November 1999 6. AEA Annual Meetings in Boston MA—January 2000 7. Dartmouth College—January 2000 8. Case Western Reserve University-- January 2000 9. Purdue University-- January 2000 10. University of Chicago -- January 2000 11. University of Illinois, Chicago—February 2000 12. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign—February 2000