Health Econ Workshop hosted by Wharton HCMG joint with Penn Econ with Mark Shepard, PhD

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Health Econ Workshop hosted by Wharton HCMG joint with Penn Econ with Mark Shepard, PhD

Oct 19, 2018 at - | Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

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Name
Mark Shepard
Assistant Professor and Faculty Research Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School of Government and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Speaker Biographies

<p>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&nbsp;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).</p>