Who’s Who at CHP

Who’s Who at CHP

INTRODUCTION TO CHP FACULTY & STAFF

Frank A. Sloan

Frank A. Sloan
J Alex McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Professor of Economics

Office Location: 114, Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9358, (919) 660-1820
Office Fax: (919) 684-6246
Email Address:  send me a message

Education:

  • PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969
  • A.B. (high honors in Economics), Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1964
Research Interests: Health Policy, Physician Behavior, and Hospital Behavior

Professor Sloan is interested in studying the subjects of health policy and the economics of aging, hospitals, health, pharmaceuticals, and substance abuse. He has received funding from numerous research grants that he earned for studies of which he was the principal investigator. His most recent grants were awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center for Disease Control, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the National Institute on Aging. Titles of his projects include, “Why Mature Smokers Do Not Quit,” “Legal and Economic Vulnerabilities of the Master Settlement Agreement,” “Determinants and Cost of Alcohol Abuse Among the Elderly and Near-elderly,” and “Reinsurance Markets and Public Policy.” He received the Investigator Award for his work on the project, “Reoccurring Crises in Medical Malpractice.” Some of his earlier works include the studies entitled, “Policies to Attract Nurses to Underserved Areas,” “The Impact of National Economic Conditions on the Health Care of the Poor-Access,” and “Analysis of Physician Price and Output Decisions.” Professor Sloan’s latest research continues to investigate the trends and repercussions of medical malpractice, physician behavior, and hospital behavior.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke, Medical Malpractice (2008), MIT Press .
  2. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with H. Kasper, Incentives and Choice in Health Care (2008), MIT Press .
  3. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with Hellen Gellband, Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2007), Washington: The National Academies Press .
  4. F.A. Sloan, edited with C-R. Hsieh, Pharmaceutical Innovation: Incentives, Competition, and Cost-Benefit Analysis in International Perspective (2007), Cambridge University Press .
  5. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke, The Law and Economics of Public Health (2007), Now Publishers .
  6. F.A. Sloan with J. Ostermann, G. Picone, C. Conover, and D.H. Taylor, Jr., The Price of Smoking (2004), MIT Press .
  7. F.A. Sloan with V.K. Smith and D.H. Taylor, Jr., The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice (2003), Harvard University Press (Awarded Honorable Mention, Research Communication Award, July 2004 by the American Agricultural Economics Association.) .
  8. F.A. Sloan with Stout, E., Whetten-Goldstein, K., and Liang, L., Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability (2000), pp. 115-42, University of Chicago Press .
  9. Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies, edited by Frank A. Sloan (1995), pp. xi, 273, Cambridge: New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press .
  10. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and Y. Wang, Do Smokers Value their Health and Longevity Less?, Journal of Law Economics, vol. 52 no. 1 (February, 2009), pp. 171-196 .
  11. F.A. Sloan with J. Shadle and L. Chepke, Is There Empiracal Evidence for "Defensive Medicine?" A Reassessment, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 28 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 481-91 .
  12. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang, Are Smokers Misinformed?, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 28 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 385-397 .
  13. F.A. Sloan with Y. Wang, Economic Theory and Evidence on Smoking Behavior of Adults, Addiction, vol. 103 no. 11 (November, 2008), pp. 1777-1785 .
  14. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke, From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance, Issues in Sceince and Technology, vol. 24 no. 3 (Spring 2008), pp. 63-70 .
  15. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and S. Chung, Individual Expectations and Behaviors: Evidence of the Relationships between Mortality Expectations and Smoking Decisions, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 35 no. 2 (October, 2007), pp. 179-201 .
  16. F.A. Sloan with Ahmed Khwaja and Dan Silverman, Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 26 no. 5 (September, 2007), pp. 927-949 .
  17. F.A. Sloan with P. Arcidiancono and H. Sieg, Living Rationally Under the Valcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking, International Economic Review, vol. 48 no. 1 (February, 2007) .
  18. F.A. Sloan with A. Khawja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang, Smoking, Wealth Accumulation, and the Propensity to Plan, Economics Letters, vol. 94 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 96-102 .
Teaching (Fall 2009):
  • ECON 195S.25, SELECTED TOPICS IN ECON (TOP)
    Social Sciences 327, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
  • ECON 295S.25, SELECTED TOPICS
    Social Sciences 327, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
  • ECON 357.01, SEM IN HEALTH ECONOMICS
    Social Sciences 111, M 06:00 PM-09:00 PM
Teaching (Spring 2010):
  • ECON 184.02, GLOBAL HEALTH SUPPLY, ORG, FIN
    Soc/Psych 126, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
  • ECON 284.02, GLOBAL HEALTH SUPPLY, ORG, FIN
    Soc/Psych 126, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
  • ECON 395A.08, GRADUATE HEALTH ECON
    Social Sciences 113, M 06:15 PM-09:00 PM
Curriculum Vitae

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