Jonathan S. Skinner

Professor of Economics
Professor of Department of Family and Community Medicine
John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professorship in the Social Sciences

Email: jonathan.s.skinner@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2535
Office: 6106 Rockefeller Hall

B.A. University of Rochester; M.A. University of California Los Angeles; Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles

Economics of health care; Medicare; personal savings for retirement

"The Incidence of Medicare," with M. McClellan, *Journal of Public Economics, (January 2006).
"Geographical Variation in the Use of Effective Care in the United States," in Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan, D A Wise and N Yashiro (eds.), (2006).
"The Efficiency of Medicare," with E Fisher and J Wennberg, in Analyses in the Economics of Aging, D Wise (ed.), (2005) 129-157.
"Is Technological Change in Medicine Always Worth It? The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction," with D Staiger and E Fisher, Health Affairs, Web exclusive (February 2006).
"Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals that Disproportionately Treat African-Americans," with A Chandra, D Staiger, J Lee, and M McClellan, Circulation 112:17 (October 2005) 2634-2641.

"The Association Among Income, Race, and Total Knee Replacements in the United States;" "Technological Diffusion from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers"