Dr. Atul Gupta

Biography

Atul Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar. He joined Wharton in 2017 after earning his PhD in Economics from Stanford University. His research interests focus on Applied Microeconomics, Health Care, Public Finance, and Industrial Organization. Atul is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research explores the determinants of health care provider productivity, the impacts of payment contract reforms, ownership organization structures, and the expansion of managed care in public insurance. His work is published in leading economics and health policy journals such as the American Economic Review and JAMA Health Affairs, and has been featured in major news outlets including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Before his academic career, Atul obtained an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

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