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Jayanta Bhattacharya
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
- Associate Professor (By courtesy), Economics
- Associate Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
Education & Community
Professional Education
- PhD, Stanford University, Economics (2000)
- MD, Stanford University, (1997)
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Research Interests
I have published empirical economics and health services research on the elderly, adolescents, HIV/AIDS and managed care. Most recently, I have been working on the labor market consequences of the obesity epidemic. I have researched the regulation of the viatical-settlements market (a secondary life-insurance market that often targets HIV patients) and summer/winter differences in nutritional outcomes for low-income American families. I am working on a project examining the labor-market conditions that help determine why some U.S. employers do not provide health insurance.
Publications
- Estimating probit models with self-selected treatments. "Stat Med" 2006 ; 3 389-413
- Specialty Selection and Lifetime Returns to Specialization Within Medicine "Journal of Human Resources" 2005 ; 1 115-143
- Technological advances in cancer and future spending by the elderly. "Health Aff (Millwood)" 2005 : W5R53-66
- Are the young becoming more disabled? "Health Aff (Millwood)" 2004 Jan-Feb ; 1 168-76
- Impacts of informal caregiver availability on long-term care expenditures in OECD countries. "Health Serv Res" 2004 ; 6 Pt 2 1971-92
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