Bio
Jonathan Skinner is a health economist who leads several research projects funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). These are large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations at Dartmouth and partner institutions, drawing on Dartmouth’s comprehensive Medicare and Medicaid datasets. Skinner’s ongoing research focuses on studying the contribution of “high-tech” health care to cost growth, the diffusion of various types of medical innovations (beneficial and harmful), how provider networks affect technology diffusion, and whether high-quality health providers affect population-level health outcomes.
A member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Skinner is also a research associate and director of the Aging Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has taught in Dartmouth’s economics department since 1995, where he serves as the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, and is a frequent contributor to the national conversation about health policy.
Published Research
Measuring Local-Area Racial Segregation for Medicare Hospital Admissions.
Akré EL, Chyn D, Carlos HA, Barnato AE, Skinner J
JAMA Netw Open|2024 Apr 1
Public versus Private Care in the Military Health System: Evidence From Low Back Pain Patients.
Leggett CG, Schmidt RO, Skinner J, Lurie JD, Luan WP
Mil Med|2024 Mar 16
Telehealth Trends and Hypertension Management Among Rural and Medicaid Patients After COVID-19.
Mackwood M, Pashchenko O, Leggett C, Fontanet C, Skinner J, Fisher E
Telemed J E Health|2024 Mar 8
Zeitler EP, Joly J, Leggett CG, Wong SL, O'Malley AJ, Kraft SA, Mackwood MB, Jones ST, Skinner JS
J Rural Health|2024 Mar
Declines in Wealth Among US Older Adults at Risk of Dementia.
Li J, Skinner JS, McGarry K, Nicholas LH, Wang SP, Bollens-Lund E, Kelley AS
JAMA Neurol|2023 Nov 1