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Bio:
Atul Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management 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 who studies how ownership, financial incentives, and government intervention shape the performance of health care organizations and, in turn, the performance of the health care system overall.
His current research examines various determinants of productivity in US health care including the effects of ownership and consolidation, innovative new care delivery models, long-run effects of Medicaid coverage, provider payment contract reforms, 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. Prior work has been recognized for both excellence and impact on policy. For example, a 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. A study on hospital corporatization was awarded the 2025 National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research award. His projects have been funded by the Arnold and NIHCM Foundations. 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.
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:
Affiliations:
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (Economics of Health)
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Contact:
Contact:
Address: 3641 Locust Walk, 306 Colonial Penn Center, Philadelphia 19104
Email: atulgup [at] wharton [dot] upenn [dot] edu
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