Atul Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the department 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. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, health care, public finance, and industrial organization. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
His current research examines various determinants of productivity in US health care including performance pay for providers, local regulation, the expansion of public insurance programs, and the growing role of managed care therein.
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.