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DR. ALEJANDRO ARRIETA
Dr. Alejandro Arrieta, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
OFFICE: BS 4065
PHONE: 317- 274-2717
E-MAIL: arrietaa@iupui.edu
WEBSITE: http://php.spea.iupui.edu/arrietaa
Dr. Arrieta joined SPEA and the Center of Health Policy in the fall of 2008. His teaching and research interests are on health care utilization, disparities, and variation in practice. He has also conducted research on health care in Latin America and health care finance.
EDUCATION
- PhD, Economics, Rutgers University, 2008
- M.A., Finance, University of the Pacific, Peru, 2002
- B.A., Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 1996
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Research Fellow, InterAmerican Development Bank, Washington, D.C. 2008
- Research Assistant, Institute for Health at Rutgers University (IHHCPAR), New Jersey. 2004-2005
- Senior Economic Analyst, Superintendence of Banking and Insurance, Lima - Peru, 1998-2002, 2006-2007
MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
- Health Economics
- Health Care Utilization and Quality
- Health Care Finance
- Public and Private Health Care Systems in Latin America
INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
"Effects of Leisure and Non-leisure Physical Activity on Mortality in U.S. Adults over Two Decades" (with Louise Russell), forthcoming in Annals of Epidemiology.
"Structural Misclassification for Dependent Variables: A semi-parametric approach". July, 2008.
"A Structural Misclassification Model to Estimate the Impact of Non-clinical factors on Healthcare Utilization". October, 2007.
"The Aftermath of the Peruvian Health Reform: Demand Inducement of Cesarean Section Deliveries". October, 2007.
"Effect of Market Structure on Health Quality in the New Jersey Hospital Industry". August, 2005.
"Is Specialization in Life Insurance Companies Beneficial in Latin America?" FIDES, May 2002.
COURSES TAUGHT
- SPEA-H 352 Health Care Finance
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- The Economic and Social Research Consortium (Lima-Peru), Research Funding Award 2008 and 2006
- Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (Rutgers University), Excellence Fellowship 2007
- InterAmerican Federation of Insurance Companies, The Clinio Silva Research Award, 2001