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Manoj Mohanan

Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Programs
Duke University
Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
103B Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works


Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India.

Journal article JAMA · March 2021 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Can individuals’ beliefs help us understand nonadherence to malaria test results? Evidence from rural Kenya

Journal article Review of Development Economics · February 1, 2021 Featured Publication In malaria-endemic countries about a quarter of test-negative individuals take antimalarials (artemisinin-based combination therapies [ACTs]). ACT overuse depletes scarce resources for subsidies and contributes to parasite resistance. As part of an experim ... Full text Cite

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in slums versus non-slums in Mumbai, India.

Journal article The Lancet. Global health · February 2021 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Information and Facilitation Interventions for Accountability in Health and Nutrition: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in India

Journal article Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · December 31, 2020 Featured Publication Cite

Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.

Journal article Health Policy Plan · June 1, 2020 Featured Publication A major puzzle in malaria treatment remains the dual problem of underuse and overuse of malaria medications, which deplete scarce public resources used for subsidies and lead to drug resistance. One explanation is that health behaviour, especially in the c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda

Journal article American Journal of Health Economics · May 1, 2017 Featured Publication Performance-based contracting is particularly challenging in health care, where multiple agents, information asymmetries and other market failures compound the critical contracting concern of multitasking. As performance-based contracting grows in develop ... Open Access Cite

Effect Of A Large-Scale Social Franchising And Telemedicine Program On Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia Outcomes In India.

Journal article Health affairs (Project Hope) · October 2016 Featured Publication Despite the rapid growth of social franchising, there is little evidence on its population impact in the health sector. Similar in many ways to private-sector commercial franchising, social franchising can be found in sectors with a social objective, such ... Full text Cite

Assessing the independent and combined effects of subsidies for antimalarials and rapid diagnostic testing on fever management decisions in the retail sector: results from a factorial randomised trial in western Kenya.

Journal article BMJ Glob Health · 2016 Featured Publication OBJECTIVES: There is an urgent need to understand how to improve targeting of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) to patients with confirmed malaria infection, including subsidised ACTs sold over-the-counter. We hypothesised that offering an antimalarial ... Full text Link to item Cite

The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India.

Journal article JAMA pediatrics · April 2015 Featured Publication ImportanceIn rural India, as in many developing countries, childhood mortality remains high and the quality of health care available is low. Improving care in such settings, where most health care practitioners do not have formal training, require ... Full text Cite

Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries

Journal article Review of Economics and Statistics · May 2013 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Quasi-experimental evidence on the causal effects of physical health on mental health.

Journal article Int J Epidemiol · April 2010 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: While a large body of literature has demonstrated an association between physical health problems and psychiatric ones, the extent to which one is causally linked to the other remains difficult to estimate. This quasi-experimental study seeks t ... Full text Link to item Cite