Sanford School of Public Policy
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Journal Articles
- with Sebastian Bauhoff, Gerard La Forgia, Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Kultar Singh, Grant Miller. "Impact of the Chiranjeevi Yojana Program on Institutional Deliveries and Birth Outcomes in Gujarat, India: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis." Bulletin of World Health Organization (December, 2013). [pdf] [abs]
Papers Submitted
- Donato, K; Miller, G; Mohanan, M; Truskinovsky, Y; Vera-Hernández, M. "Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India." American Economic Review 107.5 (May, 2017): 506-510. [doi] [abs]
- O'Meara, WP; Laktabai, J; Mohanan, M; Platt, A; Maffioli, E; Kirui, J; Abel, L; Meier, P; Turner, E; Menya, D. "A CLUSTER-RANDOMIZED TRIAL TO TARGET SUBSIDIZED ARTEMISININ COMBINATION THERAPY (ACT) IN THE RETAIL SECTOR USING A COMMUNITY-BASED TESTING AND VOUCHER SCHEME." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 97.5 (January, 2017): 333-334.
- O'Meara, WP; Laktabai, J; Mohanan, M; Turner, E; Maffioli, E; Platt, A; Lesser, A; Menya, D. "TARGETING ANTIMALARIAL SUBSIDIES TO CONFIRMED CASES IN THE RETAIL SECTOR - TESTING A DIAGNOSIS-DEPENDENT VOUCHER SCHEME IN WESTERN KENYA." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE 93.4 (October, 2015): 361-361.
- Manoj Mohanan, Marcos Vera-Hernández, Veena Das, Soledad Giardili, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Tracy Rabin, Sunil Raj, Jeremy Schwartz, and Aparna Seth. "Do No Harm: The Know-Do Gap and Quality of Care for Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India." (2013).
- with Tisamarie Sherry, Sebastian Bauhoff. "Paying for Performance when Healthcare Production is Multi-dimensional: The Impact of Rwanda's National Program on Rewarded Services, Heterogeneity, and Multi-tasking." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 136 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2170393 (2013). [abs]
- M. Mohanan. "Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries." Forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics (2010). [abs]
- Maselko, J; Mohanan, M; Kawachi, I. "RESPONDING TO ADVERSITY? QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DYNAMIC SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITS RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 171 (2010): S53-S53. [Gateway.cgi]
Monographs
- V. Das, M. Mohanan, et al. Standardized Patients and the Measurement of Healthcare Quality. 2011.
Papers Published
- Balsari, S; Mohanan, M. "Local government actions can curb air pollution in India and Pakistan.." Nature 634.8036 (October, 2024): 1055-1056. [doi] [abs]
- Maselko, J; Shartle, K; Lansford, JE; Collins, A; Mukherji, A; Vera-Hernández, M; Mohanan, M. "The changing association between pandemic-related stressors and child and adolescent mental health during the waning phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.." Scientific reports 14.1 (October, 2024): 25843. [doi] [abs]
- 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 14.1 (March, 2024): 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.) 383.6683 (February, 2024): eadj9986. [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 23.3 (September, 2023): 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 8 (2022): 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 2021 (July, 2021).
- Kuppalli, K; Gala, P; Cherabuddi, K; Kalantri, SP; Mohanan, M; Mukherjee, B; Pinto, L; Prakash, M; Pramesh, CS; Rathi, S; Pai, NP; Yamey, G; Pai, M. "India's COVID-19 crisis: a call for international action.." Lancet (London, England) 397.10290 (June, 2021): 2132-2135. [doi]
- Mohanan, M; Malani, A; Krishnan, K; Acharya, A. "Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India.." JAMA 325.10 (March, 2021): 1001-1003. [doi]
- Malani, A; Shah, D; Kang, G; Lobo, GN; Shastri, J; Mohanan, M; Jain, R; Agrawal, S; Juneja, S; Imad, S; Kolthur-Seetharam, U. "Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in slums versus non-slums in Mumbai, India.." The Lancet. Global health 9.2 (February, 2021): e110-e111. [doi]
- Maffioli, EM; Prudhomme O’Meara, W; Turner, EL; Mohanan, M. "Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya." Review of Development Economics 25.1 (February, 2021): 163-182. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Donato, K; Miller, G; Truskinovsky, Y; Vera-HernÁndez, M. "Different Strokes for Different Folks? Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills†." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13.4 (January, 2021): 34-69. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Rajan, VS; Swanson, K; Thirumurthy, H. "Information and Facilitation Interventions for Accountability in Health and Nutrition: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in India." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 295 (December, 2020).
- Maffioli, EM; Mohanan, M; Saran, I; O'Meara, WP. "Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.." Health Policy Plan 35.5 (June, 2020): 556-566. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Donato, K; Miller, G; Vera-Hernandez, M; Truskinovsky, Y. "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills." (January, 2019).
- Kruk, ME; Gage, AD; Arsenault, C; Jordan, K; Leslie, HH; Roder-DeWan, S; Adeyi, O; Barker, P; Daelmans, B; Doubova, SV; English, M; García-Elorrio, E; Guanais, F; Gureje, O; Hirschhorn, LR; Jiang, L; Kelley, E; Lemango, ET; Liljestrand, J; Malata, A; Marchant, T; Matsoso, MP; Meara, JG; Mohanan, M; Ndiaye, Y; Norheim, OF; Reddy, KS; Rowe, AK; Salomon, JA; Thapa, G; Twum-Danso, NAY; Pate, M. "High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution.." The Lancet. Global health 6.11 (November, 2018): e1196-e1252. [doi]
- Prudhomme O'Meara, W; Menya, D; Laktabai, J; Platt, A; Saran, I; Maffioli, E; Kipkoech, J; Mohanan, M; Turner, EL. "Improving rational use of ACTs through diagnosis-dependent subsidies: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in western Kenya.." PLoS Med 15.7 (July, 2018): e1002607. [doi] [abs]
- Maffioli, EM; Mohanan, M. "Touching beliefs: Using touchscreen technology to elicit subjective expectations in survey research.." PloS one 13.11 (January, 2018): e0207484. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Miller, G; Donato, K; Truskinovsky, Y; Vera-Hernandez, M. "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills." Center for Global Development Working Paper 464 (October, 2017).
- Sherry, TB; Bauhoff, S; Mohanan, M. "Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda." American Journal of Health Economics 3.2 (May, 2017): 192-226. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Giardili, S; Das, V; Rabin, T; Raj, S; Schwartz, J; Seth, A; Goldhaber-Fiebert, J; Miller, G; Vera-Hernández, M. "Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, India." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 95.5 (May, 2017): 343-352. [doi] [abs]
- Laktabai, J; Lesser, A; Platt, A; Maffioli, E; Mohanan, M; Menya, D; Prudhomme O'Meara, W; Turner, EL. "Innovative public-private partnership to target subsidised antimalarials: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate a community intervention in Western Kenya.." BMJ Open 7.3 (March, 2017): e013972. [doi] [abs]
- Puri, L; Das, J; Pai, M; Agrawal, P; Fitzgerald, JE; Kelley, E; Kesler, S; Mate, K; Mohanan, M; Okrainec, A; Aggarwal, R. "Enhancing quality of medical care in low income and middle income countries through simulation-based initiatives: Recommendations of the Simnovate Global Health Domain Group." BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning 3 (March, 2017): S15-S22. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Babiarz, KS; Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD; Miller, G; Vera-Hernández, M. "Effect Of A Large-Scale Social Franchising And Telemedicine Program On Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia Outcomes In India.." Health affairs (Project Hope) 35.10 (October, 2016): 1800-1809. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Hay, K; Mor, N. "Quality Of Health Care In India: Challenges, Priorities, And The Road Ahead.." Health affairs (Project Hope) 35.10 (October, 2016): 1753-1758. [doi] [abs]
- Sherry, TB; Bauhoff, S; Mohanan, M. "Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 136 (March, 2016).
- Mohanan, M; Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD; Giardili, S; Vera-Hernández, M. "Providers' knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis using vignettes: Evidence from rural Bihar, India." BMJ Global Health 1.4 (January, 2016). [doi] [abs]
- Prudhomme O'Meara, W; Mohanan, M; Laktabai, J; Lesser, A; Platt, A; Maffioli, E; Turner, EL; Menya, D. "Assessing the independent and combined effects of subsidies for antimalarials and rapid diagnostic testing on fever management decisions in the retail sector: results from a factorial randomised trial in western Kenya.." BMJ Glob Health 1.2 (2016): e000101. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Vera-Hernández, M; Das, V; Giardili, S; Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD; Rabin, TL; Raj, SS; Schwartz, JI; Seth, A. "The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India.." JAMA pediatrics 169.4 (April, 2015): 349-357. [doi] [abs]
- with Mohanan, M; Bauhoff, S; La Forgia, G; Babiarz, KS; Singh, K; Miller, G. "Effect of Chiranjeevi Yojana on institutional deliveries and neonatal and maternal outcomes in Gujarat, India: A difference-in-differences analysis | Effets du programme Chiranjeevi Yojana sur les accouchements en institutions et les résultats néonatals et maternels au Gujarat, en Inde: Une analyse de l'écart des différences." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92.3 (2014): 187-194. [available here], [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M. "Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries." Review of Economics and Statistics 95.2 (May, 2013): 673-681. [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M. "Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries." Review of Economics and Statistics 95.2 (May, 2013): 673-681. [REST_a_00262] [abs]
- with Das, J; Holla, A; Das, V; Mohanan, M; Tabak, D; Chan, B. "In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps.." Health Aff (Millwood) 31.12 (December, 2012): 2774-2784. [23213162], [doi] [abs]
- Mohanan, M; Maselko, J. "Quasi-experimental evidence on the causal effects of physical health on mental health.." Int J Epidemiol 39.2 (April, 2010): 487-493. [19939810], [doi] [abs]
- Mahal, A; Mohanan, M. "Growth of private medical education in India.." Med Educ 40.10 (October, 2006): 1009-1011. [16987192], [doi] [abs]
- Mahal, A; Mohanan, M. "Medical Education in India: Implications for access to care and its quality." Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 20.4 (2006).