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Professor Garthwaite is an applied microeconomist whose research examines the effects of government policies and social phenomena with a focus on health and biopharmaceutical sectors. His recent work has focused on the private sector effects of the Affordable Care Act, including the labor supply effects of large insurance expansions, the changes in uncompensated hospital care resulting from public insurance expansions, and the responses of non-profit hospitals to financial shocks. In prior work, he has examined the impact of government cash assistance programs on health and the effect of changes in expected mortality from the emergence of crack-cocaine markets on educational attainment.
Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. In this area he has examined the effect of expanded patent protection on pricing in the Indian pharmaceutical market, the innovation response of United States pharmaceutical firms to increases in demand, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and high drug prices.
Education/Academic qualification
Economics, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
… → 2009
Economics, MA, University of Maryland, College Park
… → 2008
Public Policy, MPP, University of Michigan
… → 2001
Political Science, BA, University of Michigan
… → 2000
Research interests
- Competition in Healthcare
- Healthcare Economics
- Healthcare Management
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The Effect of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Uncompensated Care
3/1/17 → 2/28/18
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Insurance access and demand response: Pricing and welfare implications
Besanko, D., Dranove, D. & Garthwaite, C., Sep 2020, In: Journal of Health Economics. 73, 102329.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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All medicaid expansions are not created equal: The geography and targeting of the affordable care act
Garthwaite, C., Karaca, Z., Graves, J., Marone, V., Gross, T. & Notowidigdo, M. J., Sep 1 2019, In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. 2019, Fall, p. 1-92 92 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Economic Principles for Medicare Reform
Chandra, A. & Garthwaite, C., Nov 1 2019, In: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 686, 1, p. 63-92 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The orphan drug act at 35: Observations and an outlook for the twenty-first century
Bagley, N., Berger, B., Chandra, A., Garthwaite, C. & Stern, A. D., 2019, In: Innovation Policy and the Economy. 19, 1, p. 97-137 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hospitals as insurers of last resort
Garthwaite, C., Gross, T. & Notowidigdo, M. J., Jan 1 2018, In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 10, 1, p. 1-39 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
26 Scopus citations