Frank Sloan

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.
Recent Research
Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking (with P. Arcidiacono and H. Sieg)
Effect of Dementia on the Cost of Treating Other Diseases" (funded by Merck and Co.); more information is available on the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management home page
The Private and Social Costs of Smoking (funded by National Institute on Aging); more information is available on the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management home page
Determinants and Cost of Alcohol Abuse Among the Elderly and Near-Elderly (funded by NIAAA); more information is available on the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management home page
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Selected Publications
"Upstream Intergenerational Transfers," Southern Economic Journal, October 2002
"Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and to Medicare?" (with C. Picone and S-Y Chou), Rand Journal of Economics, 2002
"Living Healthy and Living Long: Valuing the Nonpecuniary Loss from Disability and Death" (with K. Perreira), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2002
"Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is there a Dime's Worth of Difference" (with G. Picone, D. Taylor, and S.Y. Chou), Journal of Health Economics, 2001
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Health Economics (156)
Health Economics I (Econ 356)




Links
Prof. Sloan's Vita
Center for Health Policy, Law and Management

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