Hanming Fang, PhD is Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics and Professor of Health Care Management at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Professor Fang is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics. His research covers topics ranging from discrimination, social economics, welfare reform, psychology and economics, to public good provision mechanisms, auctions, health insurance markets and population aging.
He is currently working on issues related to insurance markets, particularly the interaction between the labor market and US health insurance reform, and issues related to the Chinese economy, particularly those related to the population aging. He also studies issues related to discrimination and affirmative action.
His research paper “Sources of advantageous selection: Evidence from the Medigap insurance market” received the 2008 Kenneth Arrow Award by the International Health Economist Association (iHEA). His current research projects on the racial disparities in health care, and the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the labor market have been awarded National Science Foundation research grants. He also studied the detection of upcoming in Medicare billing and the dynamics of health plan offerings in the health insurance exchange.
Professor Fang received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Before joining the the University of Pennsylvania faculty, he held positions at Yale University and Duke University. He served as a coeditor of the International Economic Review and Journal of Public Economics, as well as the editorial board of numerous professional journals including the American Economic Review. He also served as the Director of its Chinese Economy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2014-2016 and is a co-founder of VoxChina.org.
