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Overview

Darius N. Lakdawalla is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant involvement in Medicine as well. The subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Oncology, Nephrology, and Health.

Their research topics focus on areas such as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life; Healthcare Policy and Management; Global Health Care Issues; Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy; Healthcare cost, quality, practices; Economic and Environmental Valuation; and Dialysis and Renal Disease Management.

Among the recent papers authored by Lakdawalla are the following:

  • Health Technology Assessment With Diminishing Returns to Health: The Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Approach, 2021, Value in Health
  • Health technology assessment with risk aversion in health, 2020, Journal of Health Economics
  • Recommendations to address key recruitment challenges of Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, 2022, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • A guide to extending and implementing generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE), 2021, The European Journal of Health Economics
  • Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes?, 2020, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Lakdawalla on multiple publications include:

  • Charles E. Phelps
  • Bryan Tysinger
  • Dana P. Goldman
  • Jakub Hlávka
  • Eugene Lin

Lakdawalla's work has appeared repeatedly in several prominent publication venues such as:

  • Value in Health
  • Journal of Health Economics
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • The European Journal of Health Economics
  • JAMA Health Forum

Best Publications

  • Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty

    Anupam B. Jena;Seth Seabury;Darius Lakdawalla;Amitabh Chandra

  • The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

    Darius Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination *

    Darius Lakdawalla;Darius Lakdawalla;Darius Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson;Tomas Philipson

  • The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

    Darius Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • Defining Elements of Value in Health Care-A Health Economics Approach: An ISPOR Special Task Force Report [3].

    Darius N. Lakdawalla;Jalpa A. Doshi;Louis P. Garrison;Charles E. Phelps

  • The growth of obesity and technological change.

    Darius Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • Are The Young Becoming More Disabled

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;Jayanta Bhattacharya;Dana Goldman

  • Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity.

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;Tomas J. Philipson;Jay Bhattacharya

  • The nonprofit sector and industry performance

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • The Health And Cost Consequences Of Obesity Among The Future Elderly

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;Dana Goldman;Baoping Shang

  • Consequences Of Health Trends And Medical Innovation For The Future Elderly

    Dana P. Goldman;Baoping Shang;Jayanta Bhattacharya;Alan M. Garber

  • HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior

    Darius N. Lakdawalla;Neeraj Sood;Dana P. Goldman

  • Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;George Zanjani

  • HOW DOES TERRORISM RISK VARY ACROSS SPACE AND TIME? AN ANALYSIS BASED ON THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE

    Claude Berrebi;Darius N. Lakdawalla

  • A Health Economics Approach to US Value Assessment Frameworks—Summary and Recommendations of the ISPOR Special Task Force Report [7]

    Louis P. Garrison;Peter J. Neumann;Richard J. Willke;Anirban Basu

  • Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry

    Darius N. Lakdawalla

  • The Rise in Old-Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care

    Darius Noshir Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • The Declining Quality of Teachers

    Darius Lakdawalla

  • How Cancer Patients Value Hope and the Implications for Cost-Effectiveness Assessments of High-Cost Cancer Therapies

    Darius N. Lakdawalla;John A. Romley;Yuri Sanchez;J. Ross Maclean

  • Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance, and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk Transfer ¤

    Darius N. Lakdawalla;George Zanjani

  • Forecasting the nursing home population.

    Darius Lakdawalla;Dana P Goldman;Jay Bhattacharya;Michael D Hurd

  • Nonprofit Production and Competition

    Darius Lakdawalla;Tomas Philipson

  • The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation

    Darius Lakdawalla;Anup Malani;Julian Reif

  • An economic evaluation of the war on cancer.

    Darius N. Lakdawalla;Eric C. Sun;Anupam B. Jena;Carolina M. Reyes

  • How Does Terrorism Risk Vary Across Space and Time

    Claude Berrebi;Darius N. Lakdawalla

  • HIV Breakthroughs and Risk Sexual Behavior

    Dana Goldman;Darius Lakdawalla;Neeraj Sood

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana P. Goldman
Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California
Tomas Philipson
Tomas Philipson University of Chicago
Neeraj Sood
Neeraj Sood University of Southern California
Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra Harvard University
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew Harvard University
Michael D. Hurd
Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation
Charles E. Phelps
Charles E. Phelps University of Rochester
Adrian Towse
Adrian Towse Office Of Health Economics
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu University of Washington

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