Amitabh Chandra

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Amitabh Chandra is an Indian-American academic and healthcare economist who is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. [1]

Chandra received his BA and PhD in economics from the University of Kentucky; his dissertation was titled Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap, 1940-1990. [1]

He is a recipient of the Eugene Garfield Award and the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal. [2]

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  1. 1 2 "Amitabh Chandra" (PDF). John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. "About Us - Amitabh Chandra". John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University . Retrieved May 27, 2018.