Mark Duggan
Trione Director of SIEPR, Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Economics
Bio
Mark Duggan is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. He currently is a Co-Editor at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and was previously a Co-Editor at the Journal of Public Economics. Before arriving to Stanford in the summer of 2014, Duggan served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (2011-14), the University of Maryland's Economics Department (2003-11), and the University of Chicago's Economics Department (1999-2003).
Professor Duggan's research focuses primarily on the effect of government expenditure programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid on the behavior of individuals and firms. Some of his more recent research is exploring the effect of federal disability programs on the labor market and of changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs on the cost and quality of health care. He is also estimating the effect of patent reforms in India on the price and utilization of pharmaceutical treatments. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been featured in outlets such as The Economist, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Professor Duggan was the 2010 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal, which is awarded every two years by the American Society of Health Economists to the economist aged 40 and under in the U.S. who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics. Along with his co-author Fiona Scott Morton, he received the National Institute for Health Care Management's 2011 Health Care Research Award for their work on Medicare Part D. He was a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 2004 to 2006 and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2006 to 2007. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Social Security Administration, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Duggan served from 2009 to 2010 as the Senior Economist for Health Care Policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has also been an Expert Witness for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Economics
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Program Affiliations
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Public Policy
2024-25 Courses
- Labor Economics Seminar
ECON 345 (Win, Spr) - Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar
ECON 341 (Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Directed Reading
ECON 139D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading
ECON 239D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Research
ECON 199D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Practical Training
ECON 299 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Labor Economics Seminar
ECON 345 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Principles of Economics
ECON 1 (Win) - Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar
ECON 341 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Labor Economics Seminar
ECON 345 (Aut, Spr) - Principles of Economics
ECON 1 (Win) - Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar
ECON 341 (Aut, Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Government by the Numbers
ECON 19Q, PUBLPOL 19Q (Aut) - Labor Economics Seminar
ECON 345 (Spr) - Principles of Economics
ECON 1 (Win) - Public Economics III
ECON 243 (Spr) - Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar
ECON 341 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Labor Economics Seminar
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Dante Domenella -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Derek Christopher