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
Frank, Richard G., and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D: Diagnosis and Potential Prescription." January 2018.
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Evidence-Based Health Policy." New England Journal of Medicine 377 (December 2017): 2413-2415.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Risk Adjustment with an Outside Option." Journal of Health Economics 56 (December 2017): 256-258.
Chien, Alyna, Joseph P. Newhouse, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Carter R. Petty, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, and Mark A. Schuster. "Socioeconomic Background and Commercial Health Plan Spending." Pediatrics 140.5 (November 2017): 1-10.
Saghafian, Soroush, and Wallace J. Hopp. "Can Public Reporting Cure Healthcare? The Role of Quality Transparency in Improving Patient-Provider Alignment." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-044, November 2017.
Shafrin, Jason, Anshu Shrestha, Amitabh Chandra, M. Haim Erder, and Vanja Sikirica. "Evaluating Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparisons in Practice: A Case Study of Patients with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Health Economics 26.11 (November 2017): 1459-1466.
Howitt, Arnold M., Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management. American Public Health Association, 2017.
Jayachandran, Seema, and Rohini Pande. "Why Are Indian Children so Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference." American Economic Review 107.9 (September 2017): 2600-2629.
Boloori, Alireza, Soroush Saghafian, Harini A. A. Chakkera, and Curtiss B. Cook. "Data-Driven Management of Post-Transplant Medications: An APOMDP Approach." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-036, August 2017.
Saghafian, Soroush, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Iravani, Yao Cheng, and Daniel Diermeier. "Workload Management in Telemedical Physician Triage and Other Knowledge-Based Service Systems." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-035, August 2017.
Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C., Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel, and Jonathan T. Kolstad. "What Does a Deductible Do?: The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 132.3 (August 2017): 1261-1318.
Madrian, Brigitte with Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Minh Ly T Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson, and Vincent C Marconi. "A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS." AIDS 31.12 (July 2017): 1765-1769.
Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson, and Vincent C. Marconi. "A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS." AIDS 31.12 (July 2017): 1765-1769.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Craig Garthwaite. "The Economics of Indication-Based Drug Pricing." New England Journal of Medicine 377.2 (July 2017): 103-106.
Efevbera, Yvette, Jacqueline Bhabha, Paul E. Farmer, and Günther Fink. "Girl Child Marriage as a Risk Factor for Early Childhood Development and Stunting." Social Science & Medicine 185 (July 2017): 91-101.
Traub, Stephen J., M'Hamed Temkit, and Soroush Saghafian. "Emergency Department Holding Orders." Journal of Emergency Medicine 52.6 (June 2017): 885-893.
Traub, Stephen J., Soroush Saghafian, Matthew R. Buras, and M'Hamed Temkit. "Resource Utilization in Emergency Department Patients with Known or Suspected Poisoning." Journal of Medical Toxicology (June 1, 2017).
Chandra, Amitabh, Tyler Hoppenfeld, and Jonathan Skinner. "Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging?" Insights in the Economics of Aging. Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2017, 205-226.
Newhouse, Joseph P., and Sharon-Lise Normand. "Health Policy Trials." New England Journal of Medicine 376 (June 2017): 2160-2167.
Chandra, Amitabh, Michael Frakes, and Anup Malani. "Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity through Existing Civil Rights Laws." Health Affairs 36.6 (June 2017): 1041-1047.
Elmendorf, Douglas. "The Republican Health Care Debacle: How Not to Make Public Policy." Foreign Affairs, May 24, 2017.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Rachel E. Sachs. "An FDA Commissioner for the 21st Century." The New England Journal of Medicine 376.15 (April 2017): 31-33.
Stern, A.D., B. M. Alexander, and Amitabh Chandra. "How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines." Science 355.6330 (17 Mar 2017): 1131-1133.
Ho, Kate, Ariel Pakes, and Mark Shepard. "The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-007, November 2016, Revised January 2017.
Healy, Justin, Rebecca Hope, Jacqueline Bhabha, and Nir Eyal. "Paying for Antiretroviral Adherence: Is It Unethical When the Patient Is an Adolescent?" Journal of Medical Ethics 43.3 (March 2017): 145-149.
Jacobson, Mireille G., Tom Y. Chang, Craig C. Earle, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Physician Agency and Patient Survival." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 134 (February 2017): 27-47.
Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine." AMA Journal of Ethics 19.2 (February 2017): 207-213.
Jaffe, Sonia, and Mark Shepard. "Price-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-002, January 24, 2017.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Margareta Matache,and Teresa Sorde Marti. "The Critical Role of Research in Advancing Romani’s Right to Health." Health and Human Rights 19.2 (Winter 2017): 5-7.
Zhang, Siwen, Hua Chen, Songyu Zhu, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "HIV/AIDS Prevention on Southern China’s Road Projects: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Zhang, Siwen, Hua Chen, Songyu Zhu, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "Health Education in China's Factories: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Wilson, Deloris, Linda Kaboolian, Jorrit de Jong, and Guy Stuart. "Barbershops and Preventative Health: A Case of Embedded Education." January 2017.
Sinaiko, Anna, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Enrollee Choices After Their Health Plans Are Terminated: Default Effects Versus Persistent Preferences." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-055, December 2016.
Schupbach, John, Amitabh Chandra, and Robert S. Huckman. "A Simple Way to Measure Health Care Outcomes." Harvard Business Review (December 8, 2016).
Chen, Martha, and Frances Lund. "Overcoming Barriers and Addressing Gender Dimensions in Universal Health Care for Informal Workers: Lessons from India and Thailand." Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia. Ed. Sri Wening Handayani. Asian Development Bank, 2016.
Newhouse, Joseph P., and John D. MacArthur. "Medicare Advantage and Traditional Fee-For-Service Medicare." Population Health Management 19 (November 2016): s4-s5.
Keith, David W., and Peter J. Irvine. "Solar Geoengineering Could Substantially Reduce Climate Risks: A Research Hypothesis for the next Decade." Earth's Future 4 (November 2016): 549-559.
Sinaiko, Anna D., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Forced to Choose, Again: The Effects of Defaults on Individuals in Terminated Health Plans." Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics. Ed. Cohen, I. Glenn, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, 326-338.
Pirl, William F., Jennifer Lerner, Lara Traeger, Joseph A. Greer, Areej El-Jawahri, and Jennifer S. Temel. "Oncologists' Dispositional Affect and Likelihood of End-Of-Life Discussions." Journal of Clinical Oncology 34.26 (October 2016): 9.
Kamm, Frances. "The Morality of Risks in Research: Reflections on Kumar." Journal of Medical Ethics (September 19, 2016).
Chandra, Amitabh. "The Past and Future of the Affordable Care Act." Journal of the American Medical Association 316.5 (August 2016): 497-499.
Kamm, Frances. "The Ethics of Later Abortion." The Philosophers' Magazine 74 (August 3, 2016): 19-21.
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. "Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector." The American Economic Review 106.8 (August 2016): 2110-2114.
Sahni, Nikhil R., Maurice Dalton, David M. Cutler, John D. Birkmeyer, and Amitabh Chandra. "Surgeon Specialization and Operative Mortality in United States: Retrospective Analysis." British Medical Journal (July 21, 2016).
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David I. Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds. "Vaccination Rates are Associated With Functional Proximity But Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics." Medical Care 54.6 (June 2016): 578.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "More Than Blood." Nursing Clio, June 14, 2016.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, ed. Human Rights and Adolescence. Princeton University Press, 2016.
Chandra, Amitabh, Jason Shafrin, and Ravinder Dhawan. "Utility of Cancer Value Frameworks for Patients, Payers, and Physicians." Journal of the American Medical Association 315.19 (May 17, 2016): 2069-2070.
Traub, Stephen J., Adam C. Bartley, Vernon D. Smith, Roshanak Didehban, Christopher A. Lipinski, and Soroush Saghafian. "Physician in Triage Versus Rotational Patient Assignment." The Journal of Emergency Medicine 50.5 (May 2016): 784-790.
Chandra, Amitabh. "Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare and Education." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106.5 (May 2016).