Amalia R. Miller, PhD, and Catherine E. Tucker, PhD,
Award Winning Paper : "Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?"
Abstract available at : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1080262
The study, published in Journal of Political Economy, provides solid evidence that creating an electronic rather than a paper interface between patient information and health care providers reduces neonatal mortality. They further demonstrated that the cost of EMRs used for this purpose is minimal when measured against the societal benefits. 

Award Winning Paper : "U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace," published in Health Affairs  Vol. 28, No. 1, January/February 2009. 
(Full text available at Rand with permission from Health Affairs : http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2009/RAND_RP1380.pdf

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Darius N. Lakdawalla, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director of Research, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

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Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of  Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  Visiting professor at Dartmouth. Faculty Research Fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 
Douglas O. Staiger, Ph.D.  John French Professor in Economics, Dartmouth College.  Research Associate,National Bureau of Economic Research. 

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Tomas J. Philipson, Ph.D.Professor in the Harris School and a faculty member in the 
Department of Economics and the Law School, University of Chicago, IL. 
Anupam B. Jena, Ph.D. University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Chicago, IL

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Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge MA 02142 

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Kevin Murphy, Ph.D., George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, 
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Recent recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation ?genius grant.? 
Robert H. Topel, Ph.D.,  Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor in Urban and Labor Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

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Sherry Glied, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Division of Health Policy and 
Management of Columbia University's Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health 

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David Cutler, PhD, Professor of Economics, Harvard University.

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David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Economics,  University of  Chicago.