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Frank A Sloan

J. Alex McMahon Professor of Health Policy; Professor of Economics
CCFP Faculty Fellow

Research: Health economics; economics of aging; determinants of and effects of hospital ownership conver

Education:

• PhD Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1969
• A.B. (high honors in Economics) Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio - 1964

Teaching Fall 2013:

• ECON 433.01, ECON OF WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT Synopsis
  Social Sciences 113, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
• ECON 756.01, GRADUATE HEALTH ECONOMICS I Synopsis
  Social Sciences 111, M 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2008). Medical Malpractice.. MIT Press.


2. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with H. Kasper (2008). Incentives and Choice in Health Care.. MIT Press.


3. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with Hellen Gellband (2007). Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.. Washington: The National Academies Press.


4. F.A. Sloan, edited with C-R. Hsieh (2007). Pharmaceutical Innovation: Incentives, Competition, and Cost-Benefit Analysis in International Perspective.. Cambridge University Press.


5. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2007). The Law and Economics of Public Health.. Now Publishers.


6. F.A. Sloan with J. Ostermann, G. Picone, C. Conover, and D.H. Taylor, Jr. (2004). The Price of Smoking.. MIT Press.


7. F.A. Sloan with V.K. Smith and D.H. Taylor, Jr. (2003). The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice.. 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. (2000). Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability.. University of Chicago Press.


9. (1995). Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies.. Cambridge: New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.


10. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and Y. Wang (February, 2009). Do Smokers Value their Health and Longevity Less?. Journal of Law Economics, 52(1), 171-196.


11. F.A. Sloan with J. Shadle and L. Chepke (March, 2009). Is There Empiracal Evidence for "Defensive Medicine?" A Reassessment. Journal of Health Economics, 28(2), 481-91.


12. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (March, 2009). Are Smokers Misinformed?. Journal of Health Economics, 28(2), 385-397.


13. F.A. Sloan with Y. Wang (November, 2008). Economic Theory and Evidence on Smoking Behavior of Adults. Addiction, 103(11), 1777-1785.


14. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (Spring 2008). From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance. Issues in Sceince and Technology, 24(3), 63-70.


15. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and S. Chung (October, 2007). Individual Expectations and Behaviors: Evidence of the Relationships between Mortality Expectations and Smoking Decisions. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(2), 179-201.


16. F.A. Sloan with Ahmed Khwaja and Dan Silverman (September, 2007). Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions. Journal of Health Economics, 26(5), 927-949.


17. F.A. Sloan with P. Arcidiancono and H. Sieg (February, 2007). Living Rationally Under the Valcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking. International Economic Review, 48(1).


18. F.A. Sloan with A. Khawja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (January, 2007). Smoking, Wealth Accumulation, and the Propensity to Plan. Economics Letters, 94(1), 96-102.

1. Seminars are UCLA, 2003
2. Semiars at UCLA, Los Angelos, CA, 30 October 2003
3. Lecturer at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, 27 July 2003
4. NBER - Health Care Program Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 9 May 2003
5. "Contributions of Economic Analysis to Understanding Physician Behavior", The Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 21, 1991

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