Bio:

Atul Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and a Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He joined Wharton in 2017 from Stanford University, where he received his PhD in Economics. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in Health Care, Public Finance and Industrial Organization. 

His current research examines various determinants of productivity in US health care including provider payment contract reforms, the effects of ownership and organization structure, consolidation, fraud and waste in healthcare, and the expansion of managed care in public insurance.

His research has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Financial Studies. His work has been featured by major news outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post,  National Public Radio, Bloomberg, The Economist, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Vox, LA Times, National Review, and others. His study on private equity ownership in nursing homes was cited in the 2022 State of the Union and by subsequent regulations to improve transparency in nursing home ownership. His study on hospital corporatization was awarded the 2025 National Institute of Healthcare Management Research award.

Prior to Stanford, Atul received his MBA at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India and worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group for several years.

Affiliations:

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (Economics of Health)

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

CV

Google Scholar

LinkedIn

ResearchGate

Contact:

Address: 3641 Locust Walk, 306 Colonial Penn Center, Philadelphia 19104

Email: atulgup [at] wharton [dot] upenn [dot] edu