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Jonathan S. Skinner

Jonathan S. Skinner

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2025

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
79
Citations
28147
World Ranking
294
National Ranking
218

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan S. Skinner is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with significant contributions to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics span a range of areas including Healthcare Policy and Management, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Heart Failure Treatment and Management, Global Health Care Issues, Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, and Global Health Workforce Issues.

Jonathan S. Skinner has published numerous papers, with recent notable works including:

  • The Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Hospital Admissions In The United States, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Trends in Mortality Rates Among Medicare Enrollees With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Before and During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Ischemic Stroke Occurs Less Frequently in Patients With COVID-19, 2020, Stroke
  • Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality, 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Comparing Health Outcomes of Privileged US Citizens With Those of Average Residents of Other Developed Countries, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Lauren Gilstrap, A. James O'Malley, Amber E. Barnato, Andrea M. Austin, and Christopher Leggett.

Jonathan S. Skinner's work often appears in specific academic venues, notably:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance

    R. Glenn Hubbard;Jonathan Skinner;Stephen P. Zeldes

  • Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

    James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna N.A. Tosteson

  • Do the Rich Save More

    Karen E. Dynan;Jonathan Skinner;Stephen Zeldes

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

    Eric M. Engen;Jonathan Skinner

  • Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

    James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Risky income, life cycle consumption, and precautionary savings

    Jonathan S. Skinner;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households

    B. Douglas Bernheim;Jonathan Skinner;Steven Weinberg

  • The importance of precautionary motives in explaining individual and aggregate saving

    R.Glenn Hubbard;R.Glenn Hubbard;Jonathan Skinner;Jonathan Skinner;Stephen P. Zeldes;Stephen P. Zeldes

  • TAXATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

    Eric M Engen;Jonathan Skinner

  • The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform

    Alan J Auerbach;Laurence J Kotlikoff;Jonathan Skinner

  • Geography And The Debate Over Medicare Reform

    John E Wennberg;Elliott S Fisher;Jonathan S Skinner

  • Labor Supply and Marital Separation

    William R Johnson;Jonathan Skinner

  • The Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Hospital Admissions In The United States

    John D. Birkmeyer;Amber Barnato;Nancy Birkmeyer;Robert Bessler

  • Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in rates of knee arthroplasty among Medicare patients

    Jonathan Skinner;James Neil Weinstein;Scott M. Sporer;John E. Wennberg

  • Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs — Lessons from Regional Variation

    Elliott S. Fisher;Julie P. Bynum;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

    David M. Cutler;Jonathan S. Skinner;Ariel Dora Stern;David Wennberg

  • Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care

    Amitabh Chandra;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Regional Variations in Diagnostic Practices

    Yunjie Song;Jonathan Skinner;Julie Bynum;Jason Sutherland

  • Are Regional Variations in End-of-Life Care Intensity Explained by Patient Preferences?: A Study of the US Medicare Population

    Amber E. Barnato;M. Brooke Herndon;Denise L. Anthony;Patricia M. Gallagher

  • The Burden of Health Care Costs for Patients With Dementia in the Last 5 Years of Life

    Amy S. Kelley;Kathleen McGarry;Rebecca Gorges;Jonathan S. Skinner

  • Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance

    Robert Hubbard;Jonathan Skinner;Stephen Zeldes

Frequent Co-Authors

Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra Harvard University
Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan Duke University
Douglas O. Staiger
Douglas O. Staiger Dartmouth College
Ellen Meara
Ellen Meara Harvard University
Kevin G. Volpp
Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania

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