Yale School of Management - Faculty

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Professor Khwaja's research focuses on dynamic games, dynamic life cycle models of consumer behavior, asymmetric information, health insurance markets, and intertemporal choice. His research has appeared in several publications including the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Law and Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and Journal of Health Economics. Prior to Yale SOM, Professor Khwaja taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Achievements and Awards
"The Paul Geroski Best Article" Prize for the best paper published in 2006 in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007

NIAAA R01 Grant, "Deterring Drunk Driving: Beliefs, Preferences, Outcomes, and Welfare Implications," with Hanming Fang and Frank Sloan.

NIA R13 Grant, "Structural Models of Consumer Optimization Behavior," with Donna Gilleskie

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant, "Why Don’t Mature Smokers Quit?" with Dan Silverman and Frank Sloan

AHRQ Dissertation R03 Grant, "A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Investment in Health"

Selected Articles
"Estimating Willingness to Pay for Medicare Using a Dynamic Life-Cycle Model of Demand for Health Insurance" Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 156, No. 1, 130-147, May, 2010

"A Comparison of Treatment Effects Estimators Using a Structural Model of AMI Treatment Choices and Severity of Illness Information from Hospital Charts" (with G. Picone, M. Salm, and J. Trogdon), Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming

"Testing the Mechanisms of Structural Models: The Case of the Mickey Mantle Effect" (with H. Fang, M. Keane, M. Salm, and D. Silverman), American Economic Review, P&P, Vol. 97(2), pp. 53-59, May 2007

"Time Preference, Time Discounting and Smoking Decisions" (with D. Silverman and F. Sloan), Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 26(5), pp. 927-949, September 2007

"Evidence on Preferences and Subjective Beliefs of Risk Takers: The Case of Smokers" (with F. Sloan and M. Salm), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 24(4), pp. 667-682, July 2006

Working Papers
"Dynamic Entry with Cross Product Spillovers: An Application to the Generic Drug Industry" (with R. Gallant and H. Hong)

"Investment in Human Capital, Longevity and Moral Hazard in a Stochastic Life-Cycle Model of Demand for Health"

"Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Health Expenditures: A Semiparametric Analysis" (with P. Bajari, H. Hong, and C. Marsh)

Education
PhD University of Minnesota, 2001