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Frank A Sloan

Frank A Sloan

J. Alex McMahon Professor of Health Policy; Professor of Economics
CCFP Faculty Fellow

Phone: (919) 613-9358
Fax: +1 919 684 6246
E-mail: fsloan@duke.edu
Office: Social Sciences 236
Mailing Address: Social Sciences 236 Durham, NC 27708
CV: Curriculum Vitae pdf

 

Research: Health economics; economics of aging; determinants of and effects of hospital ownership conver

Education:

  • PhD Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 1969
  • A.B. (high honors in Economics) Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio - 1964

Publications (More Publications)

  1. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2008) Medical Malpractice
  2. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with H. Kasper (2008) Incentives and Choice in Health Care
  3. F.A. Sloan, co-edited with Hellen Gellband (2007) Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  4. F.A. Sloan, edited with C-R. Hsieh (2007) Pharmaceutical Innovation: Incentives, Competition, and Cost-Benefit Analysis in International Perspective
  5. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2007) The Law and Economics of Public Health
  6. F.A. Sloan with J. Ostermann, G. Picone, C. Conover, and D.H. Taylor, Jr. (2004) The Price of Smoking
  7. F.A. Sloan with V.K. Smith and D.H. Taylor, Jr. (2003) The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice
  8. F.A. Sloan with Stout, E., Whetten-Goldstein, K., and Liang, L. (2000) Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability
  9. (1995) Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
  10. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and Y. Wang (2009) Do Smokers Value their Health and Longevity Less? Journal of Law Economics
  11. F.A. Sloan with J. Shadle and L. Chepke (2009) Is There Empiracal Evidence for "Defensive Medicine?" A Reassessment Journal of Health Economics
  12. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (2009) Are Smokers Misinformed? Journal of Health Economics
  13. F.A. Sloan with Y. Wang (2008) Economic Theory and Evidence on Smoking Behavior of Adults Addiction
  14. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2008) From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance Issues in Sceince and Technology
  15. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and S. Chung (2007) Individual Expectations and Behaviors: Evidence of the Relationships between Mortality Expectations and Smoking Decisions Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  16. F.A. Sloan with Ahmed Khwaja and Dan Silverman (2007) Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions Journal of Health Economics
  17. F.A. Sloan with P. Arcidiancono and H. Sieg (2007) Living Rationally Under the Valcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking International Economic Review
  18. F.A. Sloan with A. Khawja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (2007) Smoking, Wealth Accumulation, and the Propensity to Plan Economics Letters

Presentations

  1. Seminars are UCLA, , 2003
  2. Semiars at UCLA, Los Angelos, CA, 30 October 2003
  3. Lecturer at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, 27 July 2003
  4. NBER - Health Care Program Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 9 May 2003
  5. "Contributions of Economic Analysis to Understanding Physician Behavior", The Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 21, 1991