On February 11th Carol Propper will present the paper "Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service". This event is part of the Health Economics and Policy Seminar Series 2015-16, convened by Prof Winnie Yip and Dr Osea Giuntella.

Biography

Carol is a Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School in the Organisation & Management Group. Carol joined Imperial College Business School as Professor of Economics and Head of the new Health Management Group on 1 October 2007. She also holds an appointment at the University of Bristol where she helped found the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, which has attracted major research funding from a number of bodies.

Carol was Senior Economic Advisor to NHS Executive on Regulation of the NHS Internal Market 1993-4, Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at London School of Economics from 1997-2007, Co-Director and Director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation from 1998-2009, and chaired the ESRC research grants board until 2009.

She is particularly interested in the impact of incentives on the quality of health care delivery and, more widely, on the design and consequences of incentives within the public sector and the boundary between the state and private markets.

Carol has been awarded a CBE for her services to social science. The accolade recognises Carol’s research into public economics and economics of health care as well as her work with colleagues from other social science and medical disciplines. See the news item.

Carol and co-author John Van Reenan have been awarded the Arrow Award for the best paper in Health Economics published in 2010 for their paper "Can Pay Regulation Kill?" JPE 118(21):222-273, published in The Journal of Political Economy. The prize is awarded by the International Health Economics Association.