Amitabh Chandra is an

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academic and healthcare economist who is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at

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. Chandra received his BA and

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in economics from the

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; his dissertation was titled ''Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap, 1940-1990''. He is a recipient of the Eugene Garfield Award and the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal.

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