Faculty

Economics Track

Yale Braunstein Yale Braunstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Information
Economics of Information
Information policy
Cost studies
Ralph Catalano Ralph Catalano, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health
Economic antecedents of specialty mental health services utilization
Economic antecedents of stress related illness
William Dow William Dow, Ph.D.
HSPA Director
Associate Professor of Health Economics
Health Economics
International Health
Economic Demography
Lee Friedman Lee Friedman, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy
Economic Organization
Environmental Markets
School Finance
Utility Regulation
Paul Gertler Paul Gertler, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Services Finance
The role of regulation and finance in health care markets
The internal organization of health care institutions
Social health insurance in developing countries
Financing and allocating public health care resources in developing countries
Teh-wei Hu

Teh-wei Hu, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Health Economics
Economics of tobacco control
Health care reform in Asia (China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Costts and outcomes of mental healath capitation

Botond Koszegi Botond Koszegi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Economics
Public Economics
Psychology
Individual decision-making
Ronald Lee Ronald Lee, Ph.D.
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family Professor of Economics
Professor of Demography
Long-run demographic and fiscal stochastic forecasting; intergenerational transfers; macro consequences of population aging; social security; evolutionary theory of the life cycle; population and economic development
Edward Miguel Edward Miguel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
Violence and economic performance; local public finance in Africa; the impact of health status on education and productivity; incentives and peer effects in learning; AIDS orphans
James Robinson James Robinson, Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics
Biotechnology policy and strategy
Health insurance
Physician payment methods
Health care finance
Nonprofit and for-profit organization
Richard Scheffler Richard Scheffler, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Health Economics & Public Policy
Director, Petris Center & HPTP-RWJ
Organization and financing of mental health services
Incentive and mergers in managed care
Reforming health systems in Eastern Europe
The supply of physicians in the 21st Century