Health Economics Workshop with Mark Shepard, PhD (co-hosted by Wharton’s Health Care Management Dept. and the Penn Economics Dept.)

“Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts”

12:00p.m. – 1:20p.m. October 19, 2018

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Mark Shepard is an assistant professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research studies health care markets, with topics at the intersection of health, industrial organization, and public economics. Much of his work focuses on competition and policy design in health insurance markets, particularly in public programs like the Massachusetts/ACA health insurance exchanges and Medicaid managed care. Mark received his PhD in economics from Harvard University (2015) and his AB in applied math from Harvard (2008). He was a Post-doctoral Fellow (in Aging and Health Economics) at the NBER during the 2015-16 academic year before starting as an assistant professor in 2016-17. Before graduate school, Mark spent a year working at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform (2008-09).

This event is free and open to the public, but please register.

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