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. Shartle, K; Lansford, JE; Vera-Hernández, M; Mukherji, A; Mohanan, M; Maselko, J, Beyond the individual: Household activity of daily living limitations, urban-rural residence, and mental health, Ssm Mental Health, vol. 8 (December, 2025) [doi] [abs]
2. Wagner, Z; Mohanan, M; Mukherji, A; Zutshi, R; Patil, S; Krishnappa, J; Banerjee, S; Sood, N, Investigating the know-do gap in antibiotics prescribing: Experimental evidence from India., Science advances, vol. 11 no. 37 (September, 2025), pp. eady9868 [doi] [abs]
3. Balsari, S; Mohanan, M, Local government actions can curb air pollution in India and Pakistan., Nature, vol. 634 no. 8036 (October, 2024), pp. 1055-1056 [doi] [abs]
4. 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, vol. 14 no. 1 (October, 2024), pp. 25843 [doi] [abs]
5. 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]