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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
105
Citations
62559
World Ranking
73
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David M. Cutler is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields with a primary focus on healthcare policy and management, healthcare cost, quality and practices, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Other areas of focus include primary care and health outcomes, global health care issues, opioid use disorder treatment, and palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Their research engages several subfields of study, notably general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacology, and clinical psychology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • JAMA
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Health Affairs Scholar

Their recent papers demonstrate diverse contributions to health-related research topics. These include:

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus, 2020, JAMA
  • The Costs of Long COVID, 2022, JAMA Health Forum
  • Disparities in Coronavirus 2019 Reported Incidence, Knowledge, and Behavior Among US Adults, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • An algorithmic approach to reducing unexplained pain disparities in underserved populations, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between US and Non-US Health Systems, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine

David M. Cutler has frequently collaborated with a group of co-authors over the course of their research, including Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Ezekiel Emanuel, Michael Berkwits, Robert Golub, and Edward H. Livingston.

The researcher has been recognized with several awards, including the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

    David Cutler;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • The Determinants of Mortality

    David M Cutler;Angus S Deaton;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

    Raj Chetty;Michael Stepner;Sarah Abraham;Shelby Lin

  • Understanding Differences in Health Behaviors by Education

    David M. Cutler;Adriana Lleras-Muney

  • Why Have Americans Become More Obese

    David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser;Jesse M. Shapiro

  • Are Ghettos Good or Bad

    David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser

  • What moves stock prices

    David M. Cutler;James M. Poterba;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings

    Katherine Baicker;David M. Cutler;Zirui Song

  • The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth-Century United States

    David M. Cutler;David M. Cutler;Grant Miller

  • The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

    David M. Cutler;Edward L. Glaeser;Jacob L. Vigdor

  • The Anatomy of Health Insurance

    David M. Cutler;Richard J. Zeckhauser

  • The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

    David Cutler;Jacob Vigdor;Edward Glaeser

  • Rising Inequality? Changes in the Distribution of Income and Consumption in the 1980s

    David M Cutler;Lawrence F Katz

  • Is Technological Change In Medicine Worth It

    David M. Cutler;Mark McClellan

  • Does Public Insurance Crowd out Private Insurance

    David M. Cutler;Jonathan Gruber

  • The gap gets bigger: Changes in mortality and life expectancy by education 1981 - 2000.

    Ellen R. Meara;Seth Richards;David M. Cutler

  • AN AGING SOCIETY: OPPORTUNITY OR CHALLENGE

    David Cutler;James Poterba;L.M. Sheiner;Lawrence Summers

  • Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-Off between Competition and Adverse Selection

    David M. Cutler;Sarah J. Reber

  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus.

    David M. Cutler;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

    Elizabeth Brainerd;David M. Cutler

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