Jose Pagan

Chair and Professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

Dr. Pagán received his PhD in economics from the University of New Mexico and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar with expertise in health economics and population health. He has led research, implementation, and evaluation projects on the redesign of health care delivery and payment systems. He is interested in population health management, health care payment and delivery system reform, and the social determinants of health. Over the years his research has been funded through grants and contracts from the Department of Defense, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the European Commission, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others.

Dr. Pagán is Chair of the Board of Directors of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States. He also served as Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the American Society of Health Economists.

Areas of research and study

Applied Economics

Health Economics

Population Health

Public Health Policy

Publications

Publications

Spillovers and vulnerability: The case of community uninsurance

Access to health care for migrants returning to Mexico

Community-level uninsurance and the unmet medical needs of insured and uninsured adults

Managed care and the scale efficiency of US hospitals

Notas y comentarios envejecimiento, salud y economía la encuesta nacional sobre salud y envejecimiento en México

Self-medication and health insurance coverage in Mexico

Access to conventional medical care and the use of complementary and alternative medicine

Differences in access to health care services between insured and uninsured adults with diabetes in Mexico

Start-up capital, microenterprises and technical efficiency in Mexico

The decision-making process of health care utilization in Mexico

The impact of diabetes on employment: Genetic IVs in a bivariate probit

Complementary and alternative medicine: personal preference or low cost option?

Economic growth and interfactor/interfuel substitution in Korea

Reformas al sistema de seguridad social y el mercado laboral en los estados unidos y Canadá

Relative employment and earnings of female household heads in Mexico

Sectoral selection and informality: A Nicaraguan case study

Self-employment in the era of the new economic model in Latin America: A case study from Nicaragua

The Economic Impact of Worker Displacement in the US/Mexico Border Region

Worker Displacement in the US/Mexico Border Region

Government spending, taxation, and oil revenues in Mexico

Just-in-time purchasing and technical efficiency in the US manufacturing sector

Sectoral queuing in a transitional economy: The case of Nicaragua in the 1990s

Employment shifts, economic reform and the changes in public/private sector wages in Mexico: 1987-1997

Executive compensation and corporate production efficiency: a stochastic frontier approach

Gender differences in labor market decisions in rural Guatemala