The Health Care Economics & Management PhD program is partially supported by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), whose purpose is to promote interdisciplinary education and research related to health care. Doctoral students are afforded many opportunities to work closely with LDI faculty on research grants and educational activities.

Representative Publications
Names in bold type indicate authors who were Wharton doctoral students at the time of publication.

Lawton R. Burns, Eric T. Bradlow, J. Andrew Lee, and Anthony Antonacci, "Assessment of Medical Devices: How to Conduct Comparative Technology Evaluations of Product Performance." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 23(4): 455-463, 2007.

Lawton R. Burns, Gilbert Gimm, and Sean Nicholson, "The Financial Performance of Integrated Health Organizations (IHOs)." Journal of Healthcare Management, 50(3): 191-213, 2005.

Patricia Danzon, and Michael F. Furukawa, "International Prices and Availability of Pharmaceuticals in 2005." Health Affairs, 27(1): 221-233, 2008.

Patricia Danzon with Sean Nicholson and Nuno Sousa Pereira, "Productivity in Pharmaceutical-Biotechnology R&D: The Role of Experience and Alliances." Journal of Health Economics, 24(2): 317-339, 2005.

Guy David and Lorens Helmchen, "An Uncertain Prescription: Are Tax Exemptions for Nonprofit Hospitals an Efficient Way to Fund Indigent Care?" Regulation, 29(2): 14-16, June 2006.

A.R. Chiang, G. David and M.G. Housman, "The determinants of urban emergency medical services privatization." Critical Planning 13: 5-22, 2006.

Scott Harrington, Tom Miller, "Competitive markets for individual health insurance." Health Affairs, Chevy Chase: W359, 2003.

Mark V. Pauly and M.K. Bundorf, "Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?" Journal of Health Economics, 25(4): 650-673, 2006.

R.D. Lieberthal, "The Cost and Outcome Benefits of Treating Diabetes Type 2 as a Chronic Condition." Society of Actuaries, Monograph M-HB05-1, Schaumberg, IL, November, 2005.

M.C. Beach, D.A. Asch, C. Jepson, J.C. Hershey, T. Mohr, and S. McMorrow, P.A. Ubel. "Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions." Medical Decision Making, 23(5):369-378, Sep/Oct 2003.

C.B. Rye, "The Adoption of Innovations by Provider Organizations in Health Care." Medical Care Research and Review, 64(3): 235-278, 2007.

R.M. Werner and D. Polsky, "Strategies to attract medical students to the specialty of child neurology. Pediatr Neurol 30:35-38, 2004.