Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. "The Importance of the Individual Mandate 鈥 Evidence from Massachusetts." New England Journal of Medicine 364.4 (January 2011): 293-295.
Alhassani, Ali, Michael Chernew, Amitabh Chandra. "The Sources of the SGR 鈥淗ole鈥." New England Journal of Medicine 366.4 (January 26, 2011): 289-291.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. "The Importance of the Individual Mandate 鈥 Evidence from Massachusetts." Health Policy and Reform. January 12, 2011.
Poterba, James M., Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise. "The Asset Cost of Poor Health." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP11-005, January 2011.
Ruggie, Mary. "Can Policy Create Quality? The United States in Comparative Perspective." Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing. Ed. Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane D. McLeod, Anne Rogers. Springer, 2011, 85-99.
Cutler, David, Bryan Lincoln, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Understanding Movement Across Health Plans." Journal of Health Economics 29.6 (December 2010): 821-838.
Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts, Joseph P. Newhouse, chair. Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement. National Academies Press, 2010.
Hsu, John, Vicki Fung, Jie Huang, Mary Price, Richard Brand, Rita Hui, Bruce Fireman, William H. Dow, John Bertko, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Fixing Flaws In Medicare Drug Coverage That Prompt Insurers To Avoid Low-Income Patients." Health Affairs 29.12 (December 2010): 2335-2343.
Zhang, Yuting, Katherine Baicker, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Geographic Variation in the Quality of Prescribing." New England Journal of Medicine 363.21 (November 18, 2010): 1985-1988.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Tom S. Vogl. "Rising Up With Shoe Leather?" Comment on Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review), Social Science & Medicine, 71.7, October 2010: 1227-1230.
Berndt, Ernst R., and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets." 糖心vlog官网 Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-039, September 2010.
Mello, Michelle M., Amitabh Chandra, Atul A. Gawande, and David M. Studdert. "National Costs Of The Medical Liability System." Health Affairs 29.9 (September 2010): 1569-1577.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Assessing Health Reform's Impact On Four Key Groups Of Americans." Health Affairs 29.9 (September 2010): 1714-1724.
Concannon, Thomas W., David M. Kent, Sharon-Lise Normand, Joseph P. Newhouse, John L. Griffith, Joshua Cohen, Joni R. Beshansky, John B. Wong, Thomas Aversano, and Harry P. Selker. "Comparative Effectiveness of STEMI Regionalization Strategies." Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 3.5 (September 2010): 506-513.
Ruggie, Mary. "Human Rights, Public Health and the Role of Government." Presentation to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, August 2010.
Ruggie, Mary. "Health Care as a Right of Social Citizenship in the US: The US in Historical and Comparative Perspective." Paper for the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 14-17, 2010.
Rehkopf, David H., Christopher Jencks, and Maria M. Glymour. "The Association of Earnings with Health in Middle Age: Do Self-Reported Earnings for the Previous Year Tell the Whole Story?" Social Science and Medicine 71.3 (August 2010): 431-439.
Block, Jason P., Amitabh Chandra, Katherine D. McManus, and Walter C. Willett. "Point-of-Purchase Price and Education Intervention to Reduce Consumption of Sugary Soft Drinks." American Journal of Public Health 100.8 (August 2010): 1427-1433.
Zhang, Yuting, Katherine Baicker, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Geographic Variation in Medicare Drug Spending." New England Journal of Medicine 363.5 (July 29, 2010): 405-409.
Zhang, Yuting, Judith R. Lave, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Julie M. Donohue. "How the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit Changed the Distribution of Out-of-Pocket Pharmacy Spending Among Older Beneficiaries." Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences 65B.4 (July 2010): 502-507.
Jacobson, Mireille, Craig C. Earle, Mary Price, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "How Medicare's Payment Cuts For Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs Changed Patterns Of Treatment." Health Affairs 29.7 (July 2010): 1391-1399.
Abadie, Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. "Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California鈥檚 Tobacco Control Program." Journal of the American Statistical Association 105.490 (June 2010): 493-505.
Zhang, Yuting, Judith R. Lave, Julie M. Donohue, Michael A. Fischer, Michael E. Chernew, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "The Impact of Medicare Part D on Medication Adherence Among Older Adults Enrolled in Medicare-Advantage Products." Medical Care 48.5 (May 2010): 409-417.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight. "Patient Cost Sharing in Low Income Populations." American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 100.2 (May 2010): 303-308.
Cutler, David, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal, and Tom Vogl. "Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India." American Economic Journal 2.2 (April 2010): 72-94.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Gergely Ujhelyi. "Regulating Misinformation." Journal of Public Economics 94.3-4 (April 2010): 247-257.
Kamm, Frances. "Affecting Definite Future People." American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 9.2 (Spring 2010).
Chandra, Amitabh, Jonathan Gruber, and and Robin McKnight. "Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly." American Economic Review 100.1 (March 2010): 193-213.
Scherer, F.M. "Pharmaceutical Innovation." Handbook on the Economics of Innovation. Ed. Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg. North-Holland, 2010.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care." Agglomeration Economics. Ed. Edward L. Glaeser. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 211 - 236.
Chernew, Michael E., Lindsay M. Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, Teresa B. Gibson, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Geographic Correlation Between Large-Firm Commercial Spending and Medicare Spending." American Journal of Managed Care 16.2 (February 2010): 131-138.
Cutler, David M., and Edward L. Glaeser. Social Interactions and Smoking. Research Findings in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 141-144.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Heidi Williams. Comment: Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day. Research Findings in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 203-209.
Glaeser, Edward L. Comment: Education and the Prevalence of Pain. Research Findings in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Heidi Williams. Comment: Income, Aging, Health and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll. Research Findings in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 263-267.
Moon, Suerie, Nicole A. Szlez谩k, Catherine M. Michaud, Dean T. Jamison, Gerald T. Keusch, William C. Clark, and Barry R. Bloom. "The Global Health System: Lessons for a Stronger Institutional Framework." PLoS Medicine 7.1 (January 2010): e1000193.
Chernew, Michael E., Lindsay M. Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Ensuring the Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care Reform." New England Journal of Medicine 362.1 (January 7, 2010): 1-3.
Huskamp, Haiden A., David G. Stevenson, Michael E. Chernew, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "A New Medicare End-Of-Life Benefit For Nursing Home Residents." Health Affairs 29.1 (January 2010): 130-135.
Clark, William C., Nicole A. Szlezak, Suerie Moon, Barry R. Bloom, Gerald T. Keusch, Catherine M. Michaud, Dean T. Jamison, Julio Frenk, and Wen L. Kilama. "The Global Health System: Institutions in a Time of Transition." Center for International Development Working Paper 193, January 2010.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Uncomfortable Arithmetic 鈥 Whom to Cover versus What to Cover." New England Journal of Medicine 362.2 (December 16, 2009): 95-97.
Scherer, F.M. Access to Medicines. The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. Ed. Kenneth A. Reinert, Ramkishen S. Rajan, Amy Jocelyn Glass, and Lewis S. Davis. Princeton University Press, 2009, 3-6.
Kamm, Frances. "Neuroscience and Moral Reasoning: A Note on Recent Research." Philosophy & Public Affairs 37.4 (October 2009): 330-345.
Kelman, Steven, and John N. Friedman. "Performance Improvement and Performance Dysfunction: An Empirical Examination of Distortionary Impacts of the Emergency Room Wait-Time Target in the English National Health Service." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19.4 (October 2009): 917-947.
Frank, Richard G., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Health Insurance Exchanges 鈥 Making the Markets Work." New England Journal of Medicine 361 (September 2009): 1135-1137.
Eggleston, Karen, Nilay D. Shah, Steven A. Smith, Amy E. Wagie, Arthur R. Williams, Jerome H. Grossman, Ernst R. Berndt, Kirsten Hall Long, Ritesh Bannerjee, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "The Net Value of Health Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1997 to 2005." Annals of Internal Medicine 151.6 (September 2009): 386-W127.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Net Value of Health Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1997 to 2005." Annals of Internal Medicine 151.6 (September 15, 2009): 386-393.
Peterson, Paul E. "Health Lessons from Schools." New York Post, September 3, 2009.
Smith, Sheila, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Mark S. Freeland. "Income, Insurance, And Technology: Why Does Health Spending Outpace Economic Growth?" Health Affairs 28.5 (September/October 2009): 1276-1284.
Chernew, Michael E., Lindsay Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?" Health Affairs 28.5 (September/October 2009): 1327-1335.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "A Trillion-Dollar Geography Lesson." Health Affairs 28.5 (September/October 2009): 1448-1451.