Frank A. Sloan, J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management and J Alex McMahon Professor in Health Policy

Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone:	+1 919 613 9358, +1 919 660 1820
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.econ.duke.edu/~fsloan

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1969
A.B. (high honors in Economics)	Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio	1964

Specialties:

Health Economics
Economics
Labor Economics / Economics of the Household
Behavioral Economics

Research Interests: Health Policy, Physician Behavior, and Hospital Behavior

Frank Sloan is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University since 1993. He is also the Director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke that originated in 1998. Professor Sloan did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College and received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Duke in July, 1993, he was a Research Economist at the Rand Corporation and on the faculties of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University. He was Chair of the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt from 1986-89. His current research interests include alcohol use prevention, long-term care, medical malpractice, and cost-effectiveness analyses of medical technologies. Professor Sloan also has a long-standing interest in hospitals, health care financing, and health manpower. He has served on several national advisory public and private groups. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission.

Keywords:

health economics • economics of aging • economics of substnace abuse • medical malpractice • economics of hospitals • economics of pharmaceuticals

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Sloan, F; Chepke, L, Medical Malpractice (2008), MIT Press, ISBN 9780262515160
2. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with H. Kasper, Incentives and Choice in Health Care, edited by Sloan, FA; Kasper, H, vol. 1 (July, 2008), MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-69365-8  [abs]
3. Countries, COCCIL-AM-I; Health, BOG; Medicine, IO, Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, edited by Sloan, FA; Gelband, H (January, 2007), pp. 340 pages, National Academies Press, ISBN 9780309103848  [abs]
4. Sloan, FA; Hsieh, CR, Pharmaceutical innovation: Incentives, competition, and cost-benefit analysis in international perspective (January, 2007), pp. 1-331, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521874908 [doi]  [abs]
5. Sloan, FA; Chepke, LM, The law and economics of public health, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, vol. 3 no. 5-6 (December, 2007), pp. 331-490, Now Publishers, ISSN 1547-9846, ISBN 9781601980748 [doi]  [abs]
6. F.A. Sloan with J. Ostermann, G. Picone, C. Conover, and D.H. Taylor, Jr., The Price of Smoking (2004), MIT Press
7. Sloan, FA; Smith, VK; D H Taylor, J, 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. Sloan, FA; Stout, E; Whetten-Goldstein, K; Liang, L, Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability (June, 2000), pp. 293 pages, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226762807
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. Khwaja, A; Sloan, F; Wang, Y, Do smokers value their health and longevity less?, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 52 no. 1 (February, 2009), pp. 171-196, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0022-2186 [doi]  [abs]
11. Sloan, FA; Shadle, JH, Is there empirical evidence for "Defensive Medicine"? A reassessment., Journal of health economics, vol. 28 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 481-491, ISSN 0167-6296 [19201500], [doi]  [abs]
12. Sloan, FA; Khwaja, A; Silverman, D; Wang, Y, Are Smokers Misinformed?, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 28 no. 2 (March, 2009), pp. 385-397, ISSN 0167-6296 [19178971], [doi]  [abs]
13. Sloan, FA; Wang, Y, Economic theory and evidence on smoking behavior of adults., Addiction (Abingdon, England), vol. 103 no. 11 (November, 2008), pp. 1777-1785 [18778387], [doi]  [abs]
14. Sloan, F; Chepke, L, From medical malpractice to quality assurance, Issues in Science and Technology, vol. 24 no. 3 (January, 2008), pp. 63-70, ISSN 0748-5492  [abs]
15. Sloan, FA; Khwaja, A; Chung, S, 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, ISSN 0895-5646 [doi]  [abs]
16. Khwaja, A; Silverman, D; Sloan, F, Time preference, time discounting, and smoking decisions., Journal of health economics, vol. 26 no. 5 (September, 2007), pp. 927-949, ISSN 0167-6296 [doi]  [abs]
17. Arcidiacono, P; Sieg, H; Sloan, F, Living rationally under the volcano? An empirical analysis of heavy drinking and smoking, International Economic Review, vol. 48 no. 1 (February, 2007), pp. 37-65, WILEY, ISSN 0020-6598 [doi]  [abs]
18. Khwaja, A; Silverman, D; Sloan, F; Wang, Y, Smoking, wealth accumulation and the propensity to plan, Economics Letters, vol. 94 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 96-103, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0165-1765 [doi]  [abs]