Grant Miller

Assistant Professor of Medicine,

and by Courtesy, of Economics

and of Health Research and Policy

Grant Miller is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine, a Core Faculty Member at the Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR), and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).  He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development and a Faculty Affiliate of the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies and the Woods Institute for the Environment.  His primary interests are health and development economics and economic demography.

 

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Working Papers

“Supply- vs. Demand-Side Rationing in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado,” June 2009 (with Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernández).

“AIDS and Declining Support for Africa's Dependent Elderly,” April 2009 (with Eran Bendavid, Jay Bhattacharya, and Tim Kautz).  Paper available upon request.

“Time Vs. Money in Child Health Production: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child Survival in Colombia,” February 2009 (with Piedad Urdinola).

“Managed Care and Prevention: The Physician Selection Hypothesis,” February 2008 (with Srikanth Kadiyala).

 

Publications

“Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia,” Forthcoming, The Economic Journal.

“Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness, and Child Survival in American History,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(3): 1287-1327, 2008.

Online Appendix

Coded Voteview Data: Raw, Harmonized

Digitized Municipal Public Finance Data: Raw, Harmonized

Digitized Mortality Data: Raw, Harmonized

“Evidence on Early-Life Income and Late-Life Health from America’s Dust Bowl Era,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(33): 13244-13249, 2007 (with David Cutler and Doug Norton).

“The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20th Century United States,” Demography 42(1): 1-22, 2005 (with David Cutler).

 

Courses

Economics 127/Medicine 262:  “The Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries”

CHP/PCOR

Stanford University

117 Encina Commons

Stanford, CA 94305-6019

USA

Contact Information:

Email: ngmiller@stanford.edu

Phone: +1-650-723-2714

Fax: +1-650-723-1919

Affiliations:

· Center for Health Policy / Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR)

· National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

· Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

· Stanford Center for International Development

· Stanford Center for Latin American Studies

Last Updated: 6/30/2009