Research Interests for Manoj Mohanan

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.

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 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)

Areas of Interest:

Health policy in developing countries
Provider motivation and incentives
Evaluation Research
Technology and Development

Recent Publications

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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)