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Research Project

Unpacking the Value of Health Insurance in India: Fostering Dialogue Amongst Methodologies

2014 – 2016

Project Summary

This project combined ethnographic research with statistical analysis to measure the effectiveness of a major health insurance expansion program in India.

Research Team

Gabriella Conti

Gabriella Conti

Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the Department of Social Science; Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at IZA Bonn

University College London

Gabriella Conti's research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life conditions affect well-being throughout the lifecourse.

Stefan Ecks

Stefan Ecks

Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science

University of Edinburgh

Stefan Ecks co-founded Edinburgh University’s Medical Anthropology program. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in India, Nepal, Myanmar, and the UK. Recent work focuses on an embodied theory of value, global pharmaceutical markets, changing ideas of depression, poverty and access to...

Kosuke Imai

Kosuke Imai

Professor, Department of Government and Department of Statistics

Harvard University

Kosuke Imai is Professor in the Department of Government and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his primary office is located. Before moving to Harvard in 2018, Imai taught at Princeton University for...

Cynthia Kinnan

Cynthia Kinnan

Assistant Professor, Economics; The James L. Paddock Junior Professorship in International Economics

Tufts University

Cynthia Kinnan received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Tufts, she taught at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how households and small firms in developing countries use financial products (such as credit, insurance, savings) and informal...

Vani Kulkarni

Vani Kulkarni

Senior Fellow, Urban Ethnography Project

Yale University

Vani S. Kulkarni is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University. She has a PhD, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught and been awarded several research fellowships at Penn, Harvard and Yale. She has also worked as a consultant to...

Ramanan Laxminarayan

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

Founder and Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi; Senior Research Scholar

Princeton University

Laxminarayan is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C., a senior research scholar at Princeton University and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Since 1995, Laxminarayan has worked to improve the understanding...

Anup Malani

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Anup Malani

Lee and Brena Freeman Professor, University of Chicago Law School and Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine

University of Chicago

Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and...

Anuj Shah

Anuj Shah

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science, Booth School of Business

University of Chicago

Anuj K. Shah uses psychology and behavioral science to examine social issues such as poverty, crime, and violence. He is an affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at ideas42, a social science research and development laboratory...

Alessandra Voena

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Alessandra Voena

Professor of Economics

Stanford University

Alessandra Voena is an empirical microeconomist who studies primarily the economics of the family and the economics of science and innovation. She is currently a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and an Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. She has previously taught at the...

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