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Paul Gertler

Li Ka Shing Foundation Chair in Health Management
Faculty Director, Graduate Program in Health Services Management
Professor of Health Services Finance
School of Public Health
Affiliated Professor, Department of Demography and School of Public Policy
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Positions Held

At Haas since 1996
1996 - present Professor, Analysis and Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1996 - present Professor, Health Services Finance, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
1988 - 96 Senior Economist, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
1986 - 88 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1983 - 86 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
1978 - 80 Analyst, Office of Health Economics, Department of Health, State of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

External Service and Assignments

Co-Editor, Journal of Human Resources, 1991-98
Editor, Special issue of Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1994
Editor, Special issue of Journal of Human Resources, Winter 1995
Member, American Economic Association
Member, American Public Health Association
Member, Econometric Society
Member, Health Economics Research Organization
Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Founding Member, International Health Economics Association

Selected Papers and Publications

"On the Road to Social Health Insurance: The Asian Experience," World Development, 1998, Vol. 26, No. 4: 717-732
"The Policy Implications for Better Structure and Process on Birth Outcomes" (with J. Peabody and A. Leibowitz), Health Policy 1998, Vol. 43: 1-13
"Private Health Insurance and Public Expenditures" (with R. Strum), Journal of Econometrics, 1997, Vol. 77: 237-257
"Targeting Interventions for Low Birthweight" (with J. Peabody), Journal of Community Epidemiology, Vol. 12, 1997
"Moral Hazard and Risk Spreading in Medical Partnerships" (with M. Gaynor), RAND Journal of Economics, Winter, 1995
"Family Productivity, Labor Supply and Welfare" Journal of Human Resources, Fall 1994, Vol. 29: 989-1026

Honors and Awards

Kenneth Arrow Award in Health Economics, 1996
Academic Career Leadership Award, National Institutes of Health, 1998

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