Atul Gupta

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 provider payment contract reforms, the effects of ownership and organization structure, consolidation, the use of advertising, 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 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and leading health policy journals such as JAMA and Health Affairs. His work has been featured by major news outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, 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.

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.