People

Frank A Sloan

J Alex McMahon Professor in Health Policy and Prof. of Economics

Office Phone: (919) 660-1820, (919) 613-9358
Office Fax: (919) 684-6246
E-mail Address: fsloan@duke.edu
Location:   114 Rubenstein Hall
Website: http://www.econ.duke.edu/~fsloan
Mailing Address: 302 Towerview Rd. Rubenstein Hall, Box 90253 Durham, NC 27708
CV: Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

Fall 2013

• ECON 433.01 ECON OF WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT
  
• ECON 756.01 GRADUATE HEALTH ECONOMICS I
  

Research Summary

Frank Sloan is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics at Duke University since 1993. He is also the Director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke that originated in 1998. Professor Sloan did his undergraduate work at Oberlin College and received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Duke in July, 1993, he was a Research Economist at the Rand Corporation and on the faculties of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University. He was Chair of the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt from 1986-89. His current research interests include alcohol use prevention, long-term care, medical malpractice, and cost-effectiveness analyses of medical technologies. Professor Sloan also has a long-standing interest in hospitals, health care financing, and health manpower. He has served on several national advisory public and private groups. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission.

Publications (More Publications)

1. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja and Y. Wang (2009) Do Smokers Value their Health and Longevity Less? Journal of Law Economics
2. F.A. Sloan with J. Shadle and L. Chepke (2009) Is There Empiracal Evidence for "Defensive Medicine?" A Reassessment Journal of Health Economics
3. F.A. Sloan with A. Khwaja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (2009) Are Smokers Misinformed? Journal of Health Economics
4. F.A. Sloan with Y. Wang (2008) Economic Theory and Evidence on Smoking Behavior of Adults Addiction
5. F.A. Sloan with L. Chepke (2008) From Medical Malpractice to Quality Assurance Issues in Sceince and Technology
6. 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
7. F.A. Sloan with Ahmed Khwaja and Dan Silverman (2007) Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions Journal of Health Economics
8. 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
9. F.A. Sloan with A. Khawja, D. Silverman and Y. Wang (2007) Smoking, Wealth Accumulation, and the Propensity to Plan Economics Letters