Manoj Mohanan, Creed C. Black Professor

Manoj Mohanan is an applied microeconomist, focusing on health and development economics, with a background in medicine and public health. His research focuses on topics related to health and health care in developing countries including: performance-based contracts, measurement of provider quality and performance, social franchising, and social accountability / monitoring. He also studies the role of subjective expectations and beliefs in health care behavior.

Several of his projects feature field experiments, policy interventions and evaluations. Many of his current projects are based in India.

Office Location:	123 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 613 9263
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.manojmohanan.com/

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	2009
SM	Harvard School of Public Health	2004
MPH	Harvard School of Public Health	2000
M.S.P.H.	Harvard University	2000
MBBS	Grant Medical College (University of Mumbai, India)	1997

Specialties:: Economics
Economics
Health Policy and Administration
International Law and Global Health
Health Systems
Health Care Financing

Research Interests: Health Economics, Development Economics, Applied Micro, Health Policy: Current projects:
Experimental evaluation of input based contracts v/s outcome contingent contracts in pay for performance,
Impact of Pay for Performance in Rwanda,
Evaluation of Vouchers and Conditional Cash Transfers to improve obstetric care,
Experimental evaluation of telemedicine; estimating price elasticity of demand for higher quality care,
Impact of incentives v/s monitoring and social accountability to improve quality of care,
Evaluation of state health insurance program in Karnataka (India); Manoj Mohanan's current research projects include development of innovative methods to measure quality of care in primary care, impact evaluation of large public sector subsidy programs, experimental evaluation of provider incentives, evaluation of social franchising models, and estimating the effect of quality information on provider choice.

Areas of Interest:: Health policy in developing countries
Provider motivation and incentives
Evaluation Research
Technology and Development

Keywords:: Accidents, Traffic • Clinical Competence • Debt • Disease Management • Economic Development • Economic impact analysis • Economics • Education, Medical • Education, Medical, Graduate • Evaluation Studies • Field experiments • Fluid Therapy • Government accountability • Health Personnel • Infant • Insurance • Motor Vehicles • Patient Simulation • Physician's Practice Patterns • Pneumonia • Practice Patterns, Physicians' • Primary Health Care • Private Sector • Public Sector • Quality Indicators, Health Care • Quality of Health Care • Regression Analysis • Rural Health Services • Schools, Medical • Urban Health Services

Current Ph.D. Students
Divya Guru Rajan

Recent Publications

Malani, A; Aiyar, J; Sant, A; Kamran, N; Mohanan, M; Taneja, S; Woda, B; Zhao, W; Acharya, A, Comparing population-level humoral and cellular immunity to SARS-Cov-2 in Bangalore, India., Scientific reports, vol. 14 no. 1 (March, 2024), pp. 5758 [doi] [abs]
Wagner, Z; Mohanan, M; Zutshi, R; Mukherji, A; Sood, N, What drives poor quality of care for child diarrhea? Experimental evidence from India., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 383 no. 6683 (February, 2024), pp. eadj9986, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [doi] [abs]
Wagner, Z; Banerjee, S; Mohanan, M; Sood, N, Does the market reward quality? Evidence from India., International journal of health economics and management, vol. 23 no. 3 (September, 2023), pp. 467-505 [doi] [abs]
Varela, G; Swanson, K; Pasquale, DK; Mohanan, M; Moody, JW, Visualizing COVID Restrictions: Activity Patterns Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdowns in Uttar Pradesh, India., Socius, vol. 8 (2022), pp. 23780231221117962 [doi] [abs]
Mohanan, M; Malani, A; Krishnan, K; Acharya, A, Prevalence of COVID-19 in Rural Versus Urban Areas in a Low-Income Country: Findings from a State-Wide Study in Karnataka, India, University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper no. 2021 (July, 2021)