Mark V. Pauly Faculty Profile

Mark V. Pauly
Bendheim Professor; Professor of Health Care Systems, Business and Public Policy, Insurance and Risk Management, and Economics

PhD, University of Virginia, 1967; MA, University of Delaware, 1965; AB, Xavier University, 1963

Research Areas
Medical economics; health policy; health insurance; other insurance; public finance/public choice; regulation

Recent Consulting
Hospital Markets - Greater New York Hospital Association; Pharmaceuticals - Amgen, Merck, Glaxo, Bayer; Health Policy - American Enterprise Institute, Urban Institute, Mathematica Policy Research

Current Projects
Analysis of health reform; conceptual foundations for cost-benefit analysis of drugs; incentives in managed care.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1983-present (Chairperson, Health Care Systems Department, 1997-2004; Vice Dean and Director, Doctoral Programs, 1995-99; named Bendheim Professor, 1990; Chairperson, Health Care Systems Department, 1990-94; Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics, 1984-89). University of Pennsylvania: 1984-present (Professor of Economics, 1983-present; Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 1984-89). Previous appointments: Northwestern University; University of Virginia. Visiting appointments: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; International Institute of Management, Berlin, Germany

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editorial Board, Public Finance Quarterly, 1983-present; Advisory Editor, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1987-present; Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2003-2007
National Advisory Council, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services); Committee on Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States, Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences; Medicare Technical Advisory Panel

Representative Publications
Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-based Health Insurance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

(with B. Herring)
Pooling Health Insurance Risks. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1999.

(with B. Herring)
"Expanding Insurance Coverage Through Tax Credits: Tradeoffs and Options." Health Affairs 20.1: 1-18 (January/February 2001).

(with P.M. Danzon)
"Insurance and New Technology: From Hospital to Drugstore." Health Affairs 20.5: 86-100 (September/October 2001).